Sandra Hall is an Australian author and journalist, best known as film reviewer for ''

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'' and ''

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''.

History

Hall began her working life as a junior at '' The Sun'', living at

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and studying journalism at Sydney University at night. She wrote a few movie reviews for ''The Sun'' and ''

'', then in 1973 won a $6,000 Fellowship from the Literature Board to gain overseas experience, and on her return from London settled down as '' The Bulletin''s first regular film reviewer. In 1978 she was awarded a $10,000 fellowship for a year, to write a novel. Around 1998 she was attracted to the ''

Sydney Morning Herald ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily compact newspaper published in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, and owned by Nine. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper i ...

''.

Recognition

Hall served as president of the

Film Critics Circle of Australia The Film Critics Circle of Australia (FCCA) is an association of cinema critics and reviewers. It includes journalists in "media, television, major national and state papers, radio, national and state, online and freelance writers, Australian ...

1991–1993.

Partial bibliography

;Film and television *''Supertoy: 20 years of television'' 1976 *''Critical Business: The New Australian Cinema in Review'' 1985 *''Turning On, Turning Off: Australian television in the eighties'' 1981 *''Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton'' 2008 ;Novels *''Beyond the Break'' 2006 (long-listed for the 2007

Miles Franklin Literary Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

) *''A Thousand Small Wishes'' 1995

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