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Victorian Premier's Prize For Poetry
The Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry, formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has an enumeration of 25,000. The winner of this category prize vies with 4 other category winners for overall Victorian Prize for Literature valued at an additional 100,000. The prize was formerly known as the C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry from inception until 2010, when the awards were re-established under the stewardship of the Wheeler Centre and restarted with new prize amounts and a new name. It was named after the early twentieth century vernacular poet C. J. Dennis. Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry Blue ribbon () = winner. 2011 * Cate Kennedy, ''The Taste of River Water'' ** Claire Potter, ''Swallow'' ** Libby Hart, ''This Floating World'' 2012 * John Kinsella, ''Armour'' **John Mateer, ''Southern Barbarians'' ** Michelle Cahill, ''Vishvarupa'' 2013 Presented in January 2014 (see 2014 entry) f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary prize with the top winner receiving 125,000 and category winners 25,000 each. The awards were established in 1985 by John Cain, Premier of Victoria, to mark the centenary of the births of Vance and Nettie Palmer, two of Australia's best-known writers and critics who made significant contributions to Victorian and Australian literary culture. From 1986 till 1997, the awards were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. In 1997 their administration was transferred to the State Library of Victoria. By 2004, the total prize money was 180,000. In 2011, stewardship was taken over by the Wheeler Centre. Winners 2011–present Beginning in 2011, the awards were restructured into 5 categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Rose (poet)
Peter John Rose (born 8 June 1955) is an Australian poet, memoirist, critic, novelist and editor. For many years he was an academic publisher. Since 2001 he has been editor of '' Australian Book Review''. Career Peter Rose was born in Wangaratta on 8 June 1955, and grew up there. Rose belongs to a famous Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob, was a celebrated Collingwood player and coach. His brother, Robert (1952–1999), also played for Collingwood and, as a cricketer, opened the batting for Victoria. Rose was educated at Haileybury, Melbourne and Monash University. Throughout the 1990s Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a wide range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the '' Australian Book Review''. He has also edited two poetry anthologies. In 2001, Rose published ''Rose Boys'', a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003. ''Rose Boys'' was reissued as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2010 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 2010. Events *February – The Wheeler Centre, Australia's "literary hub", is officially opened. * April 3 – The Apple iPad electronic book-reading device is released. *April 12 – The little-known U.S. author Paul Harding wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his debut novel '' Tinkers'' (2009) published by the tiny Bellevue Literary Press. * June 24 – Neil Gaiman becomes the first author to win both the Carnegie Medal and the Newbery Medal for the same book — '' The Graveyard Book''. *July 27 – Stieg Larsson's ''Millennium Trilogy'' becomes an international sensation, with a total of 27 million copies sold worldwide as of May 2010. On July 27 Amazon says that Larsson is the first author to sell more than 1 million Kindle e-books.Stephen Lowman, "Book World", page 12, December 12, 2010, ''The Washington Post''. *August 13 – ''Time'' magazine puts Jonathan Franzen on its cover fo ... [...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] |
Maria Takolander
Maria Takolander, born in Melbourne in 1973, is an Australian writer of Finnish heritage. Biography Takolander graduated from Deakin University in 2003 with a PhD on magical realism. Since then she has continued to produce scholarly journal articles and book chapters in the field of magical realism, but she has also extended her research into the area of creativity studies, using neuroscientific findings to theorise how creativity works. Takolander is also an acclaimed creative writer. Her six authored book publications are: a collection of short stories, ''The Double'' (Text, 2013); a book of literary criticism, ''Catching Butterflies: Bringing Magical Realism to Ground'' (Peter Lang, 2007); and four collections of poems, ''Trigger Warning'' (UQP, 2021), ''The End of the World'' (Giramondo, 2014), ''Ghostly Subjects'' (Salt, 2009) and ''Narcissism'' (Whitmore Press, 2005). She is also co-editor of ''The Limits of Life Writing'' (Routledge, 2018). Takolander won the inaugural 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Van Neerven
Ellen van Neerven (born 1990) is an Aboriginal Australian author, educator and editor. They are queer and non-binary. Their first work of fiction, ''Heat and Light'' (2013), won several awards, and in 2019 Van Neerven won the Queensland Premier's Young Publishers and Writers Award. Their second collection of poetry, ''Throat'' (2020), won three awards at the 2021 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, including Book of the Year. Early life and education Van Neerven was born in 1990 to Dutch and Aboriginal parents, and is of the Mununjali clan of the Yugambeh nation. They studied creative writing at the Queensland University of Technology. They are openly queer and non-binary, using they/them pronouns. Writing career Van Neerven's first book, ''Heat and Light,'' won the 2013 Queensland Literary Awards' David Unaipon Award for unpublished Indigenous writers, the 2016 NSW Premier's Literary Award's Indigenous Writers Prize and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Crisp
Louise Crisp (born 1957) is a contemporary Australian poet, deckhand, and fire tower watcher. Early life and education Crist was born in Omeo, Victoria and studied linguistics, anthropology, and prehistory at the Australian National University. Career Crisp has worked in various jobs, including as a fire tower person on Mount Nugong, as deckhand on fishing boats in both the Northern Territory and Western Australia, and as a spokesperson for Forest Fire Management Victoria. Poetry Her first collection was ''The luminous ocean'', a shared volume with Valery Wilde's ''In the Half-Light'', published by Friendly Street Poets in 1988. She has published several more books of poetry including written in ''pearl & sea fed'' (published by Hazard Press, New Zealand in 1994) which she wrote while working on the fire tower. This volume was shortlisted for the 1995 C. J. Dennis Prize for Poetry and the New South Wales Premier's Award. Crisp's 2019 book, ''Yuiquimbiang'', was describ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae White
Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical ''#EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives''. White's 2017 poetry collection ''Milk Teeth'' won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their poetry and writing has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit. White's poems have been described as "challeng ngnotions of category, identity, form and gender" and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader". They are also involved in poetry judging panels, including the 2019 and 2020 ''Anne Elder Award''. They have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Production from QUT. Published works * ''Exactly As I Am'' published by UQP (2022) * '''''Abundantly blue'' in ''Australian poetry journal'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Lilley
Kate Lilley (born 1960) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Early life Kate Lilley was born in Perth, Western Australia in 1960 and moved to Sydney with her family. She is the daughter of writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, and sister of Rozanna Lilley, Joe Flood, Michael Flood and Tom Flood. After studying at the University of Sydney, she completed a PhD at University of London on masculine elegy, and from 1986 to 1989 was a postdoctoral Research Fellow at St Hilda's College Oxford University working on Seventeenth Century Women's Writing. Career Lilley is a scholar of queer, feminist textual theory and history, from 17th century women’s writing to contemporary poetry and poetics. She edited ''The Blazing World'' by Margaret Cavendish (Penguin Classics, 1994). She published ''Versary'', her first volume of poems, in 2002, L''adylike'' in 2012, and ''Tilt'' in 2018. In 2010 she edited ''Selected Poems of Dorothy Hewett'' for UWA Press. Lilley had a " ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Paterson
Eddie or Eddy may refer to: Science and technology * Eddy (fluid dynamics), the swirling of a fluid and the reverse current created when the fluid flows past an obstacle *Eddie (text editor), a text editor originally for BeOS and now ported to Linux and Mac OS X Arts and entertainment * ''Eddie'' (film), a 1996 film about basketball starring Whoopi Goldberg ** ''Eddie'' (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the film * ''Eddy'' (film), a 2015 Italian film * "Eddie" (Louie), a 2011 episode of the show ''Louie'' *Eddie (shipboard computer), in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' *Eddy (Ed, Edd n Eddy), a character on ''Ed, Edd n Eddy'' *Eddie (mascot), the mascot for the British heavy metal band Iron Maiden *Eddie, an American Cinema Editors award for best editing *Eddie (book series), a book series by Viveca Lärn *Half of the musical duo Flo & Eddie *"Eddie", a song from the ''Rocky Horror Picture Show'' * "Eddie" (song), a 2022 song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers Places United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bella Li
Bella Li (born 1983) is a Chinese-born Australian poet. Early life and career Li was born in China in 1983. When she was three she and parents migrated to Australia. Li has an Arts/Law degree from the University of Melbourne. In 2020 she received a PhD from the same university for her thesis, "The Forest, the Desert and the Road: Chronotopes of American Spaces in Twentieth-century Long-form Poetry; and a Creative Work, 'Hotel America'". Her poetry has appeared in ''Meanjin'', Cordite and other literary journals. In 2017 Li was awarded a literary grant by the Australia Council. She served as a judge for the 2020 '' Overland'' Judith Wright Poetry Prize. Awards and recognition * Shortlisted, University of Melbourne's Australian Centre Literary Awards, Wesley Michel Wright Prize, 2014 for ''Maps, Cargo'' * Highly commended, Anne Elder Award, 2017 for ''Argosy'' * Shortlisted, Red Room Poetry fellowship, 2017 * Commended, University of Melbourne's Australian Centre Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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