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The Calibre Prize
The Calibre Essay Prize is an annual ''Australian Book Review'' essay-writing award. The prize, first awarded in 2007, is worth AU$7,500 and is deemed 'the nation's premier essay-writing competition' and 'Australia’s leading award for an original essay'. The prize is 'intended to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new insights into culture, society, and the human condition' and welcomes entries from published authors and commentators, as well as from emerging writers. All non-fiction subjects are eligible for submission. History The Prize was established in 2007. It is presented annually by the ''ABR'' and 'awards the most outstanding original essay contributed by a leading Australian author or commentator'. The Prize was previously co-funded by the Australian Copyright Agency. It is currently supported by Colin Golvan QC. Previous winners * 2007 Elisabeth Holdsworth [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Book Review
''Australian Book Review'' is an Australian arts and literary review. Created in 1961, ''ABR'' is an independent non-profit organisation that publishes articles, reviews, commentaries, essays, and new writing. The aims of the magazine are 'to foster high critical standards, to provide an outlet for fine new writing, and to contribute to the preservation of literary values and a full appreciation of Australia's literary heritage'. History and profile ''Australian Book Review'' was established by Max Harris and Rosemary Wighton as a monthly journal in Adelaide, Australia, in 1961. In 1971 production was reduced to quarterly releases, and lapsed completely in 1974. In 1978 the journal was revived by the National Book Council and, moving to Melbourne, began producing ten issues per year. ABR published the 400th issue of the second series in April 2018. An eleventh issue was added in 2021 (the magazine publishes a double issue in January–February). ''ABR'' is currently in partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rachel Robertson
Rachel Robertson (born 20 July 1976) is a New Zealand field hockey player who competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), .... References External links * 1976 births Living people New Zealand female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of New Zealand Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 21st-century New Zealand women {{NewZealand-fieldhockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Tredinnick
Mark Tredinnick (born 1962) is an Australian poet, essayist and teacher. Winner of the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 2012. He is the author of thirteen books, including four volumes of poetry (''Bluewren Cantos, Fire Diary, The Lyrebird, The Road South''); ''The Blue Plateau;'' ''The Little Red Writing Book'' and ''Writing Well: the Essential Guide.'' About Mark Tredinnick won the Montreal International Poetry Prize in 2011 and the Cardiff International Poetry Prize in 2012. He has won in recent years, as well as the international prizes, a number of major Australian awards— The Blake and Newcastle Prizes, among them, and a Premier's Literature Prize (for Fire Diary). Along with his volumes of poetry— ''Bluewren Cantos'' (2013), ''Fire Diary'' (2010), ''The Lyrebird'' (2011), and ''The Road South'' (spoken word CD, 2008)— ''Tredinnick's thirteen books include the landscape memoir,'' ''The Blue Platea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Brophy (author)
Kevin M. Brophy (born November 1, 1953) is an American film and TV actor. Brophy was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. He is best known for his portrayal of the title character in ''Lucan'' (1977-78). He appeared with his wife, Amy, in the 1994 film ''The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III''. Illinois-based Ray Fulk, a man who died in July 2012 at the age of 71, bequeathed half of his estate to the actor in his will, the other half going to his former '' Hell Night'' castmate and '' The Young and the Restless'' star Peter Barton, despite never meeting them. Fulk, who had no family of his own, was a fan of both actors. Partial filmography *''I'm Losing You'' (1998) .... Conductor *''White Dwarf'' (1995) .... Hospital Orderly *''Shattered Image'' (1994) .... Second Dr. Collins *''The Magic of the Golden Bear: Goldy III'' (1994) .... Melvin *''Hart to Hart: Hart to Hart Returns'' (1993) .... West *''Fearless'' (1993) .... TV Reporter *'' Fatal Charm'' (1990) .... Deputy Williams *''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Goodall
Dame Jane Morris Goodall (; born Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall on 3 April 1934), formerly Baroness Jane van Lawick-Goodall, is an English primatologist and anthropologist. Seen as the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 60-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees since she first went to Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania in 1960, where she witnessed human-like behaviours amongst chimpanzees, including armed conflict. She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots programme, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. As of 2022, she is on the board of the Nonhuman Rights Project. In April 2002, she was named a UN Messenger of Peace. Goodall is an honorary member of the World Future Council. Early years Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall was born in 1934 in Hampstead, London, to businessman Mortimer Herbert Morris-Goodall (1907–2001) and Margaret Myfanwe Joseph (1906 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Piper
Christine Piper is an Australian author and editor. Her first novel, ''After Darkness'', won the 2014 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award. She won the 2014 Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay for "Unearthing the Past". Biography Christine Piper was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1979, to an Australian father and a Japanese mother. Her family lived in Seoul for a year due to her father's work (her sister was born in Tokyo). She moved to Australia when she was one, and was raised and educated in Sydney. She has lived in Japan several times, teaching English and studying Japanese, most recently in 2010. She has also lived in the US for an extended period; the first of her two children was born in New York. Piper attended Cheltenham Girls High School where she excelled at English and Visual Arts. She placed seventh in NSW in her final exams for the 1997 Higher School Certificate in Visual Arts. She went on to s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Cunningham (writer)
Sophie Cunningham is an Australian writer and editor based in Melbourne. She is the current Chair of the Board of the Australian Society of Authors, the national peak body representing Australian authors. Career Publisher Cunningham was publisher at McPhee Gribble/Penguin for two years and Trade Publisher at Allen & Unwin for ten years; there she was known for commissioning and editing innovative fiction and non-fiction. At McPhee Gribble the books she worked on included ''I Was a Teenage Fascist'' by David Greason, ''Glad All Over: The Countdown Years 1974–1987'' by Peter Wilmoth and ''Holding the Man'' by Timothy Conigrave. At Allen & Unwin she published Mark Davis's ''Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism''. Author In 2004 her own first novel, ''Geography'', was published. In 2005 she was an Asialink resident in Sri Lanka, which provided research material for her novel ''Bird'', which follows the life of a singer-actress who became a Buddhist n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Karskens
Grace Elizabeth Karskens, (born 12 March 1958) is an Australian historian who is professor of history at the University of New South Wales. Career Grace Elizabeth Karskens, born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1958, graduated from the University of Sydney with degrees in both history and historical archaeology. She was awarded a Master of Arts in 1986, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Sydney in 1995. Before taking up a position as lecturer at the University of New South Wales in 2001, Karskens worked on heritage and archaeological projects on a contract basis and researched and published a number of books. In 2012 Karskens was appointed a Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society for her project on the Penrith Lakes and Castlereagh, New South Wales. Karskens is a member of the Reserve Bank of Australias Design Advisory Panel, which oversees the development and production of banknotes. She was a trustee of the Historic Houses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yves Rees
Yves Rees is an Australian researcher in Australian history, best known for their work on gender, transnational and economic history, as well as writings on contemporary transgender identity, and politics. Early life and education Rees received their undergraduate Bachelor of Arts Honors degree in history at the University of Melbourne (2009), Master of Arts in history at University College London (2011), and completed their PhD, entitled, "Travelling to Tomorrow: Australian Women in the United States, 1910-1960" at Australian National University (2016). Their supervisor was Angela Woollacott. Career and impact Rees started work at University of Sydney in 2016 as the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Junior Research Fellow and subsequently before moving to La Trobe University in 2017 as the David Myers Research Fellow. As of 2020, they are a lecturer in La Trobe University's history department. They are a board member of the History Council of Victoria and co-convenor of the Melbourne F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Tedeschi
Simon Tedeschi (born 1 May 1981) is an Australian classical pianist and writer. Early life Tedeschi was born in Gosford to Mark Tedeschi QC, Senior Crown Prosecutor for New South Wales, and doctor Vivienne Tedeschi, the daughter of a Polish Holocaust survivor, Lucy Gershwin. Raised in a Reform Jewish household, he grew up on the North Shore of Sydney and attended Beaumont Road Public School in West Killara and St Andrew's Cathedral School in Sydney where the headmaster discouraged him from taking part in sports lest he damage his hands. His teachers were Neta Maughan in Australia, Noretta Conci in England and Peter Serkin in USA. When he was 9 years old, Tedeschi performed Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 19, K.459 in the Sydney Opera House. At age 13, he played for Luciano Pavarotti. Career Tedeschi signed with Sony Music Australia in 2000. His debut CD, ''Simon Tedeschi'', was nominated for at the ARIA Music Awards of 2000 for Best Classical Album. In 2004 he recorde ... [...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] |
