The Age Book of the Year
''The Age'' Book of the Year Awards were annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's ''The Age'' newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. After 1998, they were presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Initially, two awar ...
.''The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature'' edited by Wilde et al. (1994) p. 23
Major publications
Books
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James Aldridge
Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, ...
– ''Mockery in Arms''
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Jon Cleary
Jon Stephen Cleary (22 November 191719 July 2010) was an Australian writer and novelist. He wrote numerous books, including '' The Sundowners'' (1951), a portrait of a rural family in the 1920s as they move from one job to the next, and '' The ...
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Peter's Pence
Peter's Pence (or ''Denarii Sancti Petri'' and "Alms of St Peter") are donations or payments made directly to the Holy See of the Catholic Church. The practice began under the Saxons in England and spread through Europe. Both before and after the ...
The Pure Land
''The Pure Land'' is a novel written by David Foster. The novel was published in 1974, and was Foster's first. It was the winner of the first The Age Book of the Year award.
It is divided into four parts. Part One is set in 1930s Katoomba, New S ...
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Catherine Gaskin
Catherine Gaskin (2 April 19296 September 2009) was an Irish–Australian romance novelist.
Biography
Gaskin was born in Dundalk Bay, County Louth, Ireland in 1929. When she was only three months old, her parents moved to Australia, settling i ...
– ''The Property of a Gentleman''
* David Ireland – ''Burn''
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Thomas Keneally
Thomas Michael Keneally, AO (born 7 October 1935) is an Australian novelist, playwright, essayist, and actor. He is best known for his non-fiction novel ''Schindler's Ark'', the story of Oskar Schindler's rescue of Jews during the Holocaust, wh ...
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Blood Red, Sister Rose
''Blood Red, Sister Rose'' (1974) is a novel by Australian writer Thomas Keneally.
Story outline
The novel explores the imagined psychology of Joan of Arc, and tells her story from Domrémy to the coronation of Charles VII of France in Rheim ...
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Colleen McCullough
Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ''The Thorn Birds'' and ''The Ladies of Missalonghi''.
Life
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Ronald McKie
Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (11 December 1909 – 8 May 1991) was an Australian novelist. He was born on 11 May 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he ...
– ''
The Mango Tree
''The Mango Tree'' is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Ronald McKie.
Synopsis
The story follows the childhood of a young man, named Jamie, growing up in a country town in Australia during the early 20th century.
Criti ...
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Gerald Murnane
Gerald Murnane (born 25 February 1939) is an Australian writer, perhaps best known for his novel ''The Plains'' (1982). ''The New York Times'', in a big feature published on 27 March 2018, called him "the greatest living English-language writer ...
– ''Tamarisk Row''
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Morris West
Morris Langlo West (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels '' The Devil's Advocate'' (1959), ''The Shoes of the Fisherman'' (1963) and ''The Clowns of God'' (1981). His books were publ ...
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Harlequin
Harlequin (; it, Arlecchino ; lmo, Arlechin, Bergamasque dialect, Bergamasque pronunciation ) is the best-known of the ''zanni'' or comic servant characters from the Italian language, Italian ''commedia dell'arte'', associated with the city o ...
* Peter Carey – ''The Fat Man in History''
* Frank Moorhouse – ''The Electrical Experience : A Discontinuous Narrative''
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Patrick White
Patrick Victor Martindale White (28 May 1912 – 30 September 1990) was a British-born Australian writer who published 12 novels, three short-story collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to 1987.
White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, ...
A. Bertram Chandler
Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England – 6 June 1984 in Sydney, Australia) was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop ships, but who later tur ...
– ''The Bitter Pill''
* Cherry Wilder – "The Ark of James Carlyle"
Children's and Young Adult fiction
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James Aldridge
Harold Edward James Aldridge (10 July 1918 – 23 February 2015) was an Australian-British writer and journalist. His World War II despatches were published worldwide and he was the author of over 30 books, both fiction and non-fiction works, ...
– ''The Marvellous Mongolian''
* Mavis Thorpe Clark – ''The Sky is Free''
* Ruth Park – ''Callie's Castle''
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Joan Phipson
Joan Margaret Phipson AM (1912–2003) was an Australian children's writer. She lived on a farm in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales and many of her books evoke the stress and satisfaction of living in the Australian countryside, flood ...
Bruce Beaver
Bruce Victor Beaver (14 February 1928 – 17 February 2004) was an Australian poet and novelist.
Biography
Beaver was born in Manly, New South Wales. He was educated at the Manly Public School and at the Sydney Boys' High School. He worked at ...
– ''Lauds and Plaints : Poems (1968-1972)''
* Robert Gray – ''Creekwater Journal''
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Clive James
Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019.
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Jennifer Maiden
Jennifer Maiden (born 1949) is an Australian poet. She was born in Penrith, New South Wales, and has had 36 books published: 28 poetry collections, 6 novels and 2 nonfiction works. Her current publishers are Quemar Press in Australia and Blooda ...
– ''Tactics''
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David Malouf
David George Joseph Malouf AO (; born 20 March 1934) is an Australian poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright and librettist. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2008, Malouf has lectured at both the University of Quee ...
Ivan Southall
Ivan Francis Southall AM, DFC (8 June 192115 November 2008) was an Australian writer best known for young adult fiction. He wrote more than 30 children's books, six books for adults, and at least ten works of history, biography or other non-fi ...
A list, ordered by date of birth (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of births in 1974 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of death.
* 9 June —
Anna Goldsworthy
Anna Goldsworthy (born 9 June 1974) is an Australian writer, teacher and classical pianist.
Life
Goldsworthy was born in Adelaide as the eldest daughter of the writer Peter Goldsworthy and Helen Goldsworthy. She began studying the piano at th ...
, writer, teacher and classical pianist
* 14 June —
Scott Monk
Scott Monk (born 14 June 1974) is an Australians, Australian author. Monk was born in Macksville, New South Wales, Macksville in New South Wales. He later lived in North Ryde, attending local public school Peter Board High, before moving to Sou ...
, author
* 2 July —
Matthew Reilly
Matthew John Reilly (born 2 July 1974) is an internationally bestselling Australian action thriller writer. ". Retrieved 10 ...
, author
Unknown date
* Alyssa Brugman, author of fiction for young adults
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Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan (born 1973) is an Australian artist, writer and film maker. He won an Academy Award for '' The Lost Thing'', a 2011 animated film adaptation of a 2000 picture book he wrote and illustrated. Other books he has written and illustrated inc ...
, artist and author
Deaths
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by
surname
In some cultures, a surname, family name, or last name is the portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family, tribe or community.
Practices vary by culture. The family name may be placed at either the start of a person's full name ...
) of deaths in 1974 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
* 7 January – Nan McDonald, writer for children (born
1921
Events
January
* January 2
** The Association football club Cruzeiro Esporte Clube, from Belo Horizonte, is founded as the multi-sports club Palestra Italia by Italian expatriates in First Brazilian Republic, Brazil.
** The Spanish lin ...
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* 21 January –
R. G. Howarth
Robert Guy Howarth (10 May 1906 — 21 January 1974) was an Australian scholar, literary critic and poet.
Early life
Howarth was born in Tenterfield, NSW, on 10 May 1906, the son of Australian-born parents, his father being a school teacher.
He ...
, poet and critic (born
1906
Events
January–February
* January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
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See also
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1974 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 1974 in Australia.
Incumbents
*Monarch – Elizabeth II
*Governor-General – Sir Paul Hasluck (until 11 July), then Sir John Kerr
*Prime Minister – Gough Whitlam
**Deputy Prime Minister – ...
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1974 in literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1974.
Events
*February – Novelist Juan Carlos Onetti is one of a group arrested by the Uruguayan dictatorship for selecting as a competition prizewinner and publi ...
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1974 in poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).
Events
* April – The dictatorship in Portugal falls; in the six months prior, with increasing repression and a discouragin ...
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List of years in Australian literature
This page gives a chronological list of years in Australian literature (descending order), with notable publications and events listed with their respective years. The time covered in individual years covers the period of European settlement of ...