Who's who of Australian Writers
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Publisher | : D. W. Thorpe |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Publisher | : D. W. Thorpe |
Total Pages | : 840 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : Maggie Nolan |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780702235238 |
Brings together for the first time essays that consider a range of high-profile cases of literary hoaxing, identity crisis or imposture in Australian literature. Critics explore the history of hoaxing and imposture, and consider the cultural and political issues at stake. Nolan at Australian Catholic University.
Author | : Anna Funder |
Publisher | : Odyssey Editions |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1623730376 |
Stasiland tells true stories of people who heroically resisted the communist dictatorship of East Germany, and of people who worked for its secret police, the Stasi. Internationally hailed as a classic, it is ‘fascinating, entertaining, hilarious, horrifying and very important’ (Tom Hanks) and ‘a heartbreaking, beautifully written book.’ (Claire Tomalin). East Germany was one of the most intrusive surveillance states of all time. One in 7 people spied on their friends, family and colleagues. In ‘the most humane and sensitive way’ (J.M. Coetzee) Funder tells the true stories of four people who had the extraordinary courage to refuse to collaborate with the Stasi, and the price they paid. She meets Miriam Weber, who was imprisoned at 16 after scaling the Berlin Wall. She drinks with the legendary “Mik Jegger” of the Eastern Bloc who was ‘disappeared’. And she finds former Stasi men who defend their regime long past its demise, and yearn for the second coming of Communism. Stasiland won the Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction published in English in 2004. It was a finalist for the Guardian First Book Award, the W.H. Heinemann Award, the Index Freedom of Expression Awards, The Age Book of the Year Awards, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature (Innovation in Writing). It is read in schools and universities in many countries, and has been adapted for CD and the stage by The National Theatre, London.
Author | : Monash University. National Centre for Australian Studies |
Publisher | : Rr Bowker Llc |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1992-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780909532994 |
Makes use of the database for the publication TWho's Who of Australian Writers' (1991), updated and expanded to March 1992. Provides a register of biographical and bibliographical information on 1000 living children's authors. Details include full name, contact information, qualifications, awards and grants, books and journal contributions, availability to public and specialised fields. Fully cross-referenced.
Author | : Desmond Byrne |
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Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Australian literature |
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Author | : Ryan O'Neill |
Publisher | : Black Inc. |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2016-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1925435172 |
Shortlisted for the 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award Absurd, original and highly addictive . . . In Their Brilliant Careers, Ryan O'Neill has written a hilarious novel in the guise of sixteen biographies of (invented) Australian writers. Meet Rachel Deverall, who discovered the secret source of the great literature of our time - and paid a terrible price for her discovery. Meet Rand Washington, hugely popular sci-fi author (of Whiteman of Cor) and inveterate racist. Meet Addison Tiller, master of the bush yarn, "The Chekhov of Coolabah", who never travelled outside Sydney. Their Brilliant Careers is a playful set of stories, linked in many ways, which together form a memorable whole. A wonderful comic tapestry of the writing life, this unpredictable and intriguing work takes Australian writing in a whole new direction . . . Shortlisted, 2017 NSW Premier's Literary Awards ‘You have to admire O’Neill’s delicious bravura. He’s been one of the few short fiction writers of recent years willing to play around with the form’s possibilities ... Apart from the fact there are more funny lines in O’Neill’s 288 pages than there are likely to be in the entirety of Australian literature elsewhere this year, the profiles are woven smartly together, as the characters’ fates and careers intertwine.’ —Saturday Paper ‘Ryan O’Neill combines conventions of biography and short story in an exhaustively brazen blend of Australian literary history and plausible yet gloriously bonkers invention.’ —Elke Power, Readings Monthly ‘Their Brilliant Careers ... brims with crackerjack wit. Pressure is subtly built; punchlines are explosive.’ —Australian Book Review ‘Ryan O’Neill has embarked on the task of creating a satirical, funny alternative history to Australian literature, an exercise he has achieved admirably and with brilliance.’ —Writers Bloc ‘[Ryan O'Neill] offers a book that is a piss-take, a celebration, a revisionist history and, perhaps most impressively, exceedingly good fun.’ —Dominic Amerena, the Australian ‘O'Neill has arranged a beautiful board of slain waxwings, no less funny or moving for being, in the final estimate of things, no more than shadows of the never living and the forever dead.’ —Adam Rivett, Sydney Morning Herald Ryan O’Neill is the author of The Weight of a Human Heart. He was born in Glasgow in 1975 and has lived in Africa, Europe and Asia before settling in Newcastle, Australia, with his wife and two daughters. His fiction has appeared in The Best Australian Stories, The Sleepers Almanac, Meanjin, New Australian Stories, Wet Ink, Etchings and Westerly. His work has won the Hal Porter and Roland Robinson awards and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Steele Rudd Award and the Age Short-Story Prize. He teaches at the University of Newcastle.
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Australia |
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Author | : Tony Birch |
Publisher | : Univ. of Queensland Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0702262056 |
A searing new novel from leading Indigenous storyteller Tony Birch that explores the lengths we will go to in order to save the people we love.Odette Brown has lived her whole life on the fringes of a small country town. After her daughter disappeared and left her with her granddaughter Sissy to raise on her own, Odette has managed to stay under the radar of the welfare authorities who are removing fair-skinned Aboriginal children from their families. When a new policeman arrives in town, determined to enforce the law, Odette must risk everything to save Sissy and protect everything she loves. In The White Girl, Miles-Franklin-shortlisted author Tony Birch shines a spotlight on the 1960s and the devastating government policy of taking Indigenous children from their families.
Author | : Jane Gleeson-White |
Publisher | : Allen & Unwin Australia |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781742372686 |
Reintroduces 50 classics of Australian literature - including novels, non-fiction, children's literature and poetry - from the last 200 years.
Author | : Jane Eldridge Miller |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780415159807 |
A comprehensive, authoritative guide to women's fiction, prose, poetry and drama from around the world in the second half of the twentieth century.