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The Chantic Bird
''The Chantic Bird'' (1968) is the debut novel by Australian writer David Ireland. Plot summary The novel follows the story of a young, psychotic teenage boy living on the fringes of society in Sydney. His only interactions with the world are through a suburban family, the children who live there and Bee the woman who cares for them. Critical reception Virginia Osborne, reviewing the novel in ''The Canberra Times'', found the novel "impressive" and noted: "The country is vividly described by Mr Ireland. The only jarring note is the baby talk indulged in by the children which is too cloying. But this apart, it has the same aura of inescapable tragedy as the film 'Bonnie and Clyde' and should appeal to the same public." Michael Wilding found the novel less than impressive: "There is never any firm establishment of his idiom. The language is a shaky mixture of slang and routine literary, overlaid with the odd portentous gesture at establishing some metaphysical cum-our-violent-ci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Ireland (author)
David Neil Ireland (24 August 1927 – 26 July 2022) was an Australian novelist. Biography David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927. Before taking up full-time writing in 1973, he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs, ranging from greenskeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery. This latter job inspired his second (and best-known) novel, '' The Unknown Industrial Prisoner'', which brought him recognition in the early 1970s. It is still considered by many critics to be one of the best and most original Australian novels of the period. He won the Miles Franklin Award three times (1971, 1976 and 1979). He is one of only four Australian writers to win the Award more than twice; the others are Thea Astley (4) and Tim Winton (4), and Peter Carey (3). Ireland died on 26 July 2022 aged 94. Honours and awards * 1966 – winner The Advertiser Literary Competition for ''The Chantic Bird'' * 1971 – winner Miles F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heinemann (publisher)
William Heinemann Ltd., with the imprint Heinemann, was a London publisher founded in 1890 by William Heinemann. Their first published book, 1890's ''The Bondman'', was a huge success in the United Kingdom and launched the company. He was joined in 1893 by Sydney Pawling. Heinemann died in 1920 and Pawling sold the company to Doubleday, having worked with them in the past to publish their works in the United States. Pawling died in 1922 and new management took over. Doubleday sold his interest in 1933. Through the 1920s, the company was well known for publishing works by famous authors that had previously been published as serials. Among these were works by H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, W. Somerset Maugham, George Moore, Max Beerbohm, and Henry James, among others. This attracted new authors to publish their first editions with the company, including Graham Greene, Edward Upward, J.B. Priestley and Vita Sackville-West. Throughout, the company was also known for its classics an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
''The Unknown Industrial Prisoner'' (1971) is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author David Ireland (author), David Ireland. In 1978 a film version was planned, to be produced by Richard Mason (film producer), Richard Mason and directed by Arch Nicholson, with Ken Cameron also working on it. Funding was from Film Australia. However, the Minister for Home Affairs Bob Ellicott cancelled the film on the grounds it was uncommercial, a rare instance of political interference in the Australian film industry.David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p16Rod Bishop & Peter Beilby, "Ken Cameron", ''Cinema Papers'', March–April 1979 p 258 Critical reception Helen Brown in ''The Canberra Times'' noted that the novel is "a big, good book with an important and timely theme and it should assure David Ireland a place in the front ranks of contemporary Australian writers. Yet my chewing was dogged and dutiful rather than enjoyab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 1968. Major publications Books * Thea Astley – '' A Boat Load of Home Folk'' * Kenneth Cook – ''The Wine of God's Anger'' * Frank Dalby Davison – ''The White Thorntree'' * Geoffrey Dutton – ''Andy'' * David Ireland – ''The Chantic Bird'' * Thomas Keneally – ''Three Cheers for the Paraclete'' * Norman Lindsay – ''Rooms and Houses'' * John O'Grady – ''Gone Troppo'' * F. J. Thwaites – '' Sky Full of Thunder'' * Morris West – ''The Tower of Babel'' Short stories * Louise Elizabeth Rorabacher – ''Aliens in Their Land : The Aborigine in the Australian Short Story'' (edited) * Patrick White – "Five-Twenty" * Michael Wilding – "Joe's Absence" Science fiction and fantasy * John Baxter – ''The Pacific Book of Australian Science Fiction'' (edited) * A. Bertram Chandler – ''Spartan Planet'' (aka ''False Fatherland'') Children's and Young Adult fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Text Publishing
Text Publishing is an independent Australian publisher of fiction and non-fiction, based in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria. Company background Text Media was founded in Melbourne in 1990 by Diana Gribble and Eric Beecher, along with designer Chong Weng Ho and others, with a small book publishing division known as Text Publishing. Michael Heyward joined in 1992, and the small publishing house became independent in 1994. When Text Media was taken over by Fairfax Media in 2004, Michael Heyward and his wife Penny Hueston entered into a joint venture with Scottish publisher Canongate. Maureen and Tony Wheeler, founders of Lonely Planet, bought Canongate's share in Text in 2011, making it a wholly Australian-owned company. In 2012, Text launched a series of Australian classics, republishing out of print works that had been, for the most part, lost to literary history. People As of August 2022, Heyward was the publisher. Awards Text awards The Text Prize for Young A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1968 Australian Novels
The year was highlighted by protests and other unrests that occurred worldwide. Events January–February * January 5 – "Prague Spring": Alexander Dubček is chosen as leader of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. * January 10 – John Gorton is sworn in as 19th Prime Minister of Australia, taking over from John McEwen after being elected leader of the Liberal Party the previous day, following the disappearance of Harold Holt. Gorton becomes the only Senator to become Prime Minister, though he immediately transfers to the House of Representatives through the 1968 Higgins by-election in Holt's vacant seat. * January 15 – The 1968 Belice earthquake in Sicily kills 380 and injures around 1,000. * January 21 ** Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh – One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins, ending on April 8. ** 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash: A U.S. B-52 Stratofortress crashes in Greenland, discharging 4 nuclear bombs. * January 23 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By David Ireland
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
