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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
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 five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Drama ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria, commonly abbreviated as Vic, is a States and territories of Australia, state in southeastern Australia. It is the second-smallest state (after Tasmania), with a land area of ; the second-most-populated state (after New South Wales), with a population of over 7 million; and the most densely populated state in Australia (30.6 per km2). Victoria's economy is the List of Australian states and territories by gross state product, second-largest among Australian states and is highly diversified, with service sectors predominating. Victoria is bordered by New South Wales to the north and South Australia to the west and is bounded by the Bass Strait to the south (with the exception of a small land border with Tasmania located along Boundary Islet), the Southern Ocean to the southwest, and the Tasman Sea (a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean) to the southeast. The state encompasses a range of climates and geographical features from its temperate climate, temperate coa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 In Australian Literature
This is a list of the historical events and publications of 2015 in Australian literature. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – ''Ghost River'' * Lisa Birman — '' How to Walk Away'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''The Secret Chord'' * Robyn Cadwallader — '' The Anchoress'' * Stephen Daisley – ''Coming Rain'' * Gregory Day – ''Archipelago of Souls'' * Peggy Frew – '' Hope Farm'' * Lisa Gorton – '' The Life of Houses'' * Sally Hepworth — '' The Secrets of Midwives'' * David Ireland — '' The World Repair Video Game'' * Susan Johnson – ''The Landing'' * Gail Jones – '' A Guide to Berlin'' * Myfanwy Jones – ''Leap'' * Mireille Juchau – ''The World Without Us'' * Malcolm Knox – ''The Wonder Lover'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''A Short History of Richard Kline'' * Judy Nunn — '' Spirits of the Ghan'' * A. S. Patrić – '' Black Rock White City'' * Gregory David Roberts — ''The Mountain Shadow'' * Steve Toltz – ''Quicksand'' * Lucy Treloar – ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2023. Events * July: Publisher Hachette Australia withdraws from publication the book titled '' Special Operations Group'' by Christophe Glasl after Victoria Police expressed concerns about the accuracy of the book * December: Yumna Kassab is announced as inaugural Parramatta Laureate of Literature for 2024 Major publications Literary fiction * Hossein Asgari – ''Only Sound Remains'' * Tony Birch – ''Women & Children'' * Jen Craig – ''Wall'' * Lauren Aimee Curtis – ''Strangers in the Port'' * Trent Dalton – ''Lola in the Mirror'' * André Dao – '' Anam'' * Gregory Day – ''The Bell of the World'' * Ali Cobby Eckermann – ''She Is the Earth'' (verse novel) * Lexi Freiman – '' The Book of Ayn'' * Madeleine Gray – '' Green Dot'' * Kate Grenville – ''Restless Dolly Maunder'' * John Kinsella – ''Cellnight: A verse novel'' * Melissa Lucashenko – '' Edenglassie'' * K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2022. Major publications Literary fiction * Robbie Arnott – '' Limberlost'' * Jessica Au – '' Cold Enough for Snow'' * Geraldine Brooks – ''Horse'' * Jane Caro – ''The Mother'' * Steven Carroll – ''Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight'' * Shankari Chandran – '' Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens'' (winner, 2023 Miles Franklin Award) * Robert Drewe – ''Nimblefoot'' * Katerina Gibson – ''Women I Know'' (winner, 2023 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction) * Yumna Kassab – ''The Lovers'' * Robert Lukins – ''Loveland'' * Fiona McFarlane – ''The Sun Walks Down'' * Fiona Kelly McGregor – ''Iris'' * Paddy O'Reilly – ''Other Houses'' * Edwina Preston – '' Bad Art Mother'' * Craig Sherborne – ''The Grass Hotel'' * Steve Toltz – ''Here Goes Nothing'' Short story collections * Katerina Gibson – '' Women I Know'' * Mirandi Riwoe – ''The Burnished Sun'' Crime and m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Animals In That Country (novel)
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2021. Major publications Literary fiction * Aravind Adiga – ''Amnesty'' * Michael Mohammed Ahmad – ''The Other Half of You'' * Larissa Behrendt – '' After Story'' * Steven Carroll – ''O'' * Michelle de Kretser – ''Scary Monsters'' * Jennifer Down – '' Bodies of Light'' * Briohny Doyle – ''Echolalia'' * Max Easton – ''The Magpie Wing'' * Nikki Gemmell – ''The Ripping Tree'' * Anita Heiss – '' Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams'' * Tom Keneally – '' Corporal Hitler's Pistol'' * John Kinsella – ''Pushing Back'' * Emily Maguire – ''Love Objects'' * Jennifer Mills – ''The Airways'' * Alice Pung – ''One Hundred Days'' * Nicolas Rothwell – ''Red Heaven'' * Claire Thomas – ''The Performance'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''7 ½'' * Michael Winkler – '' Grimmish'' Short story collections * Tony Birch – ''Dark as Last Night'' Children's and youn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Counting And Cracking
''Counting and Cracking'' is a play by Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan (better known as Shakthi). Theatre director Eamon Flack is credited as associate writer. The three-and-a-half hour play is based on the playwright's family story, and follows four generations from 1956 to 2004, from Sri Lanka to Australia. It had its world premiere January 2019 at the Sydney Festival, with the same production staged as part of the Adelaide Festival in March 2019. The play won seven Helpmann Awards, including Best Play and Best New Australian Work, as well as other awards. Synopsis The play concerns four generations of the one Tamil family across Sri Lanka and Australia, from 1956 to 2004. It was inspired by the playwright's own family story, and is based half on their experiences, and half from interviews undertaken by the playwright S. Shakthidharan (better known as Shakthi). Shakthi said "It's a story about reconciliation: between parents and children, between neighbours and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eamon Flack
Eamon Flack is an Australian theatre director. He is the Artistic Director of Belvoir, a theatre company in Sydney's Surry Hills. Flack, who grew up in Darwin, Northern Territory, was encouraged towards a career in theatre by actor Bille Brown when studying at the University of Queensland, where Brown was an adjunct professor. Flack studied acting at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Flack become Literary Manager and later Associate Director at Belvoir, before being appointed Artistic Director from 2016. Two productions Flack directed for Belvoir have won Best Play at the Helpmann Awards, ''Angels in America'' in 2014 and ''The Glass Menagerie'' in 2015. He was nominated for a Helpmann Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2016 for Belvoir's production of ''Ivanov''. Flack was credited as the associate writer of '' Counting and Cracking'', written by S. Shakthidharan, which won both the Victorian Prize for Literature and the Victorian Premier's Prize for D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2020. Major publications Literary fiction * Patrick Allington – ''Rise & Shine'' * Robbie Arnott – '' The Rain Heron'' * James Bradley – ''Ghost Species'' * Trent Dalton – ''All Our Shimmering Skies'' * Jon Doust – ''Return Ticket'' * Chris Flynn – ''Mammoth'' * Anna Goldsworthy – ''Melting Moments'' * Kate Grenville – '' A Room Made of Leaves'' * Gail Jones – ''Our Shadows'' * Tom Keneally – ''The Dickens Boy'' * Sofie Laguna – ''Infinite Splendours'' * Bem Le Hunte – ''Elephants with Headlights'' * Carol Lefevre – ''Murmurations'' * Amanda Lohrey – ''The Labyrinth'' * Laura Jean McKay – '' The Animals in That Country'' * Andrew Pippos – ''Lucky's'' * Mirandi Riwoe – '' Stone Sky Gold Mountain'' * Ronnie Scott – ''The Adversary'' * Craig Silvey – ''Honeybee'' * Philip Salom – ''The Fifth Season'' * Nardi Simpson – '' Song of the Crocodil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Friend But The Mountains
''No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison'' is an autobiographical account of Behrouz Boochani's perilous journey to Christmas Island and his subsequent incarceration in an Australian government immigration detention facility on Manus Island. Background The book was written on a mobile phone using WhatsApp and smuggled out of Manus Island as thousands of PDF files. It was translated from Persian into English by Omid Tofighian, Honorary Associate at the University of Sydney's Philosophy Department. It was published by Picador in late 2018. In his foreword to the work, Australian writer Richard Flanagan refers to Boochani as "a great Australian writer", who has written not only a "strange and terrible book", but an "account hatdemands a reckoning" for the cruelty to and deliberate destruction of hope of the detainees. Flanagan opens his foreword with: "''No Friend but the Mountains'' is a book that can rightly take its place on the shelf of world prison litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 In Australian Literature
This is a list of historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2019. Major publications Literary fiction * Tony Birch – '' The White Girl'' * David Brooks – ''The Grass Library'' * Steven Carroll – ''The Year of the Beast'' * Melanie Cheng – ''Room for a Stranger'' * Peggy Frew – ''Islands'' * Peter Goldsworthy – ''Minotaur'' * John Hughes – ''No One'' * Anna Krien – ''Act of Grace'' * Melina Marchetta – ''The Place on Dalhousie'' * Andrew McGahan – ''The Rich Man's House'' (posthumous) * Gerald Murnane – ''A Season on Earth'' * Favel Parrett – '' There Was Still Love'' * Heather Rose – ''Bruny'' * Philip Salom – ''The Returns'' * Carrie Tiffany – ''Exploded View'' * Lucy Treloar – ''Wolfe Island'' * Christos Tsiolkas – ''Damascus'' * Tara June Winch – '' The Yield'' * Charlotte Wood – '' The Weekend'' Short stories * Debra Adelaide – ''Zebra: And Other Stories'' * Yumna Kassab – ''The House of Youssef'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 In Australian Literature
This article presents a list of the historical events and publications of Australian literature during 2018. Major publications Literary fiction * Michael Mohammed Ahmad – '' The Lebs'' * Robbie Arnott – ''Flames'' * Trent Dalton – '' Boy Swallows Universe'' * Gregory Day – ''A Sand Archive'' * Ceridwen Dovey – ''In the Garden of the Fugitives'' * Rodney Hall – ''A Stolen Season'' * Gail Jones – '' The Death of Noah Glass'' * Eleanor Limprecht – ''The Passengers'' * Melissa Lucashenko – '' Too Much Lip'' * Heather Morris – '' The Tattooist of Auschwitz'' * Kristina Olsson – ''Shell'' * Ryan O'Neill – '' The Drover's Wives'' * Kim Scott – ''Taboo'' * Tracy Sorensen – '' The Lucky Galah'' * Elise Valmorbida – '' The Madonna of the Mountains'' * Tim Winton – ''The Shepherd's Hut'' * Markus Zusak – '' Bridge of Clay'' Children's and Young Adult fiction * Maxine Beneba Clarke – ''Wide Big World'', illustrated by Isobel Knowles * Mem Fox †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
