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Russell Prize
The Russell Prize (Russell Prize for Humour Writing) is an Australian literary prize awarded every second year by the State Library of New South Wales to a humorous book. It was established in 2014 through a donation by Peter Wentworth Russell, "a farmer, businessman and passionate reader". A shortlist of six books is selected and publicly announced before the prize, which comes with a cash award of $10,000. In 2021 a second category, Humour Writing for Young People, was introduced for a work aimed at the 5–12 age group. Both winners were announced in June 2021. Russell Prize for Humour Writing Humour Writing for Young People References External links * {{Official website, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/russell-prize-humour-writing Australian literary awards Awards established in 2015 Comedy and humor literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
State Library Of New South Wales
The State Library of New South Wales, part of which is known as the Mitchell Library, is a large heritage-listed special collections, reference and research library open to the public and is one of the oldest libraries in Australia. Established in 1869 its collections date back to the Australian Subscription Library established in the colony of New South Wales (now a States and territories of Australia, state of Australia) in 1826. The library is located on the corner of Macquarie Street, Sydney, Macquarie Street and Memorials to William Shakespeare#Australia, Shakespeare Place, in the Sydney central business district adjacent to the The Domain, Sydney, Domain and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Royal Botanic Gardens, in the City of Sydney. The library is a member of the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA) consortium. The State Library of New South Wales building was designed by Walter Liberty Vernon, assisted by H. C. L. Anderson and was built from 1905 to 1910, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Sorensen
Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic. Career Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and has published five academic papers. In February 2018 her debut novel '' The Lucky Galah'' was published through Pan MacMillan. It has been shortlisted and longlisted in multiple awards (see below). It is narrated by a flightless pet galah observing characters from a family's back verandah in a small Western Australian town. In July 2023 Sorensen's second book ''The Vitals'' was published through Pan MacMillan. It deals with her experience of cancer in 2014 from the point of view of her affected abdominal organs. In August 2019, Sorensen was awarded the Judy Harris Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. Personal life Sorensen grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia. She currently lives in Bathurst where she is undertaking a PhD. She is researching the role of handicrafts s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Literary Awards
A list of Australian literary awards and prizes: Literature * ABC Fiction Award (2005–2009) * ACT Book of the Year * ACT Writing and Publishing Awards * Ada Cambridge Prize *The Age Book of the Year – discontinued after 2012; reinstituted in 2021 *Asher Award – 2005–2017 *Australian Book Industry Awards * Australian Literature Society Gold Medal * The Australian/Vogel Literary Award * Banjo Awards – 1974–1997 * Barbara Jefferis Award * Chief Minister's NT Book Awards, originally Territory Read, from 2009 * Colin Roderick Award * David Unaipon Award * Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, established 2015 for writers from a migrant background *Fogarty Literary Award * Melbourne Prize for Literature * Miles Franklin Award *MUD Literary Prize (since 2018) * The Nib Waverley Library Award for LiteratureCurrently the Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award * Ned Kelly Awards * New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards * Nita Kibble Literary Award * Patrick White Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sofie Laguna
Sofie Laguna (born 1968) is an Australian writer. She was born in Sydney and studied law before deciding that being a lawyer was not for her. She has worked as an actor and is now a writer and playwright. She now lives in Melbourne. Awards * 2003 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Early Childhood for ''Too Loud Lily'' * 2007 honour book Children's Book of the Year Award: Younger Readers for ''Bird and Sugar Boy'' * 2009 longlisted Miles Franklin Award for ''One Foot Wrong'' * 2009 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards for ''One Foot Wrong'' * 2015 shortlisted Stella Prize for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2015 winner Miles Franklin Award for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2015 commended The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — FAW Christina Stead Award for ''The Eye of the Sheep'' * 2018 longlisted Stella Prize for ''The Choke'' * 2018 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize for ''The Choke'' *2021 longlisted Miles Franklin Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tanya Hennessy
Tanya Hennessy (born 1985) is an Australian digital content creator, comedian, writer and television presenter who works in Australia. Hennessy taught drama and worked in theatre as a stage manager at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe before switching to a career in radio announcing. She worked for Southern Cross Austereo and the HIT Network commercial radio stations in Newcastle, Griffith, Toowoomba and Canberra. She is best known for her comedy videos including ''Everyday Makeup Tutorial'', ''Get A Real Job'' and ''Things People Say'' on Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, and as a celebrity competitor in the Australian version of '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' Youtube Career Tanya Hennessy started heyoutube channel7th February 2015. Hennessy's first public video wasTanya Hennessy WELCOME and uploaded on the 18th September 2015. She now has over 21 million views on her youtube channel in total and strives to reach 50,000,000. Career Hennessy performed in the television ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damian Callinan
Damian Callinan is an actor/comedian from Melbourne, Australia. Entertainment career Callinan has performed in many mediums, including TV, film, radio and live stand-up. He came to national prominence in 2003 as an actor in the Australian sketch comedy television series ''skitHOUSE'' as well as making regular appearances on ''Before the Game''. In 2006, Callinan presented a live comedy show as part of the Melbourne Comedy Festival about his fertility problems entitled ''Damian Callinan has Spaznuts''. That year he also debuted ''Babysitting'', casting himself as a babysitter caring for a giant baby. In his show ''Sportsman's Night'', Callinan, with no props, performed every role in a story about a football club gathering. He's also performed several other solo comedy shows: ''Damian Callinan Calls "Last Drinks"'', ''Eureka Stocktake'','' The Cave To The Rave: The Story of Dance'' and ''Speech Night''. In 2007, he appeared in a stage show called ''The Complete Works of William ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lian Tanner
Lian Tanner (born 17 March 1951 in Tasmania, Australia) is an Australian children's author who lives in southern Tasmania. Tanner is the author of the fantasy Keepers trilogy of children's books. ''Museum of Thieves'' the first book in the series was published in 2011. It has been published in Australia, the US and India and translated into German, Turkish, Chinese characters, Bahasa Indonesia, Thai, Brazilian Portuguese and Bulgarian. Prior to writing fiction Tanner held a number of jobs including as a teacher in Australia and Papua New Guinea. She has also worked as a journalist, editor and an actor. Tanner was in the feminist folk band The Ovarian Sisters in the 1970s and 80s. Awards Tanner's book ''Museum of Thieves'' attracted a number of accolades. It won the 2010 Aurealis Award Excellence in Fiction: Children's Long Fiction, was a Notable Book in the 2011 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the 2010 Australian Independent Booksellers' Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Graham (author/illustrator)
Robert Donald Graham, better known as Bob Graham (born 20 October 1942), is an Australian author and illustrator of picture books, primarily for very young children.Erin Peters (April 2012)"Bob Graham" ''Bookbird: A Journal of International Children's Literature'', 50(2), p. 9. Graham won the 2002 Kate Greenaway Medal from the British librarians, recognising the year's best-illustrated children's book published in the UK, for the picture book ''Jethro Byrd, Fairy Child'' (Walker Books), which he both wrote and illustrated. (He donated the £5000 cash prize to refugees.) The story features a young girl who finds a tiny fairy family "in cement and weeds", contrary to her father's teaching. He also won a 2000 Smarties Prize, ages category 0–5 years, for '' Max'' and the 2002 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Picture Book, for ''"Let's Get A Pup!" Said Kate''. For his contribution as a children's illustrator, Graham was Australia nominee for the biennial, international Hans Chri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaclyn Moriarty
Jaclyn Moriarty (born 1968 in Perth) is an Australian novelist, most known for her young adult literature. She is a recipient of the Davitt Award and the Aurealis Award for best children's fiction. Biography Moriarty was raised in the north-west suburbs of Sydney. She has four sisters and one brother. Two of her sisters, Liane and Nicola, are also novelists. Moriarty studied English and Law at the University of Sydney upon graduating from high school. She then complete a Masters in Law at Yale University and a PhD at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge She worked as an entertainment and media lawyer for four years before becoming a full-time writer. The literary agent who picked up her first book, ''Feeling Sorry for Celia'', was Australian author Garth Nix. Moriarty was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney. The Ashbury/Brookfield series The Ashbury/Brookfield Series is four novels that are n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretel Killeen
Gretel Killeen (born 3 February 1963) is an Australian comedian, television presenter, media personality and author. She is known for being the host of '' Big Brother Australia'' from its inception in 2001 until the 2007 season (including ''Celebrity Big Brother'' in 2002). Killeen hosted the 2009 ''TV Week'' Logie Awards. Career Television Midday From 1989 to 1991, Killeen was a regular on ''Midday with Ray Martin'' on the Nine Network. She wrote and featured in the sketch ''A Town Like Dallas'', a parody of the genre of soap opera. Coast to Coast In 1990, Terry Willesee, John Mangos and Killeen hosted ''Coast to Coast'' for the Nine Network after the departure of Graham Kennedy from the program, but the program in the new format was short-lived. Big Brother Killeen was host of Big Brother Australia, from its first season in 2001. She hosted each series up until its seventh season in 2007. On 28 October 2007, ''The Sunday Telegraph'' reported that, as a part of a rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaz Cooke
Kaz Cooke (born Karen Cooke; 17 December 1962) is an Australian author, cartoonist and broadcaster. She has written several bestselling advice books for girls and women, including ''Real Gorgeous'', ''Up the Duff'' (also published under different titles outside of Australia), ''Kidwrangling''. ''Girl Stuff'' and ''Women's Stuff'', as well as a series of ebooks on women's health topics. Cooke has been a columnist for various Australian newspapers and magazines, including '' Dolly'', ''The Age'', ''The Australian'', ''Who'' and ''The Canberra Times''. A collection of her columns, '' Living with Crazy Buttocks'', won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the Year. In 2008, ''Girl Stuff'' won the Australian Publishers Association's General Non-fiction Book of the Year, the Australian Booksellers Association Nielsen BookData Booksellers' Choice Award, and an honour prize from the Children’s Book Council of Australia. Life Kaz Cooke was born and raised in Melbourne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Flynn (author)
Chris Flynn is an Australian author, editor and critic. Bibliography Flynn's first novel, ''A Tiger in Eden'' was released in Australia by Text Publishing in March 2012. It was shortlisted for the 2013 Commonwealth Book Prize. His second novel, ''The Glass Kingdom'' was released in May 2014 and his third, ''Mammoth'', was published in March 2020. McSweeney's issue 41, released July 2012, features a portfolio of fiction by Indigenous Australian writers, ''Terra Australis: Four Stories from Aboriginal Australian Writers'', curated, edited and introduced by Flynn. Flynn contributed to a regular column, Odd Jobs, on The Paris Review Daily, the blog page of The Paris Review. He has written for the Griffith Review, The Age, The Australian, The Books and Arts Daily Show on ABC Radio National, Meanjin, The Big Issue Australia and many other publications. ''Mammoth'' was shortlisted for the Fiction prize at the 2021 Indie Book Awards. Works Novels *''A Tiger in Eden'' *''The Glass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
