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The Miles Franklin Literary Award - Australia's Culture PortalThe annual Miles Franklin Literary Award is one of the most illustrious events on the Australian literary calendar. The award, now worth $42,000, was bequeathed by the will of Australian novelist, Miles Franklin for a 'published novel or play portraying A...
The bush has an iconic status in Australian life and features strongly in any debate about national identity, especially as expressed in Australian literature, painting, popular music, films and foods. The bush was revered as a source of national ideals b...
Australian children's literature rests on the enthusiasm and talents of many individuals, including a great many more Australian writers, illustrators and books than can be listed in this article. The earliest books published for children were mostly ins...
Australian films and filmmakers receive acclaim on the world stage, and the achievements of Australian women onscreen are celebrated. The play's success encouraged Kate to turn the play into a film (1920), which she co-directed with Charles Villiers, mak...
He has brought to the Internet, Jacket, a website dedicated to Australian literary history, reviews, articles and interviews and everything to do with poetry. Extensive content relating to the Ern Malley affair appears in Jacket 1, including some of Mall...
From the Australian Magazine's debut in 1821, Australia's magazine industry developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century through popular titles such as the Bulletin and Melbourne Punch. Alongside these more mainstream publications, a series of small,...
Australian novels are an impressive collection of written works, and represent a dynamic body of excellent writers, some with significant international awards to their credit. The Australian poet Alec Hope said that, 'The Bunyip of Australian literature ...
Australian language, letters and literature in Australia has been influenced by Aboriginal storytelling, convict tales and the desire by colonists to relate their experiences in a new country. Similarly, the bush ballads of Henry Lawson and Andrew 'Banjo...
Modern Australian poetry seeks to tell Australian stories and truths with a poetic significance so that 'they sear into the soul and can never be untold' (Dorothy Porter). The Jindyworobaks encouraged Australian writers to express themselves in language ...
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Flood Manuscripts offers assessment, editing and mentoring for published and unpublished writers by Miles Franklin winning author Tom Flood. See website for fees and services.
ETT IMPRINT represents nearly one hundred Australian authors and Estates, many of which were purchased from the Angus & Robertson backlist in the mid-1990s. ETT Imprint aim to keep Australian literary classics available. Authors include Judith Wright, Ken
The Trust Foundation administers the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Portia Geach Fund Memorial Award, the Kathleen Mitchell Award for Young Writers, the Martin Bequest Travelling Scholarships, Sir Robert Askin Operatic Travelling Scholarship, the Max
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2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlist announced - State of the Arts (website State of the Arts )Receive our FREE arts newsletter, with reviews and the latest arts news. Today the 2005 shortlist for Australia s most prestigious literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, was announced. >>The Miles Franklin Literary Award celebrates Australia...
Australia s most prestigious and richest single literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has been won by Andrew McGahan for his novel The White Earth published by Allen and Unwin. >>Brian Johns, Chair, Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) said, "CAL c...
Wednesday 2 February, 2005>>In joining the Judging Panel for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2005, Morag Fraser AM joins Ms Eve Abbey, Professor Robert Dixon, Mr Ian Hicks and the State Librarian of NSW, Dagmar Schmidmaier AM. Ms Fraser has also judged...
Receive our FREE arts newsletter, with reviews and the latest arts news. Thursday 17 June, 2004>>Australia s most prestigious and richest single literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has been won by SHIRLEY HAZZARD for her novel The Great Fi...
35 There is something of a publishing crisis now with books remaining unreviewed, and books unable to find space in bookshops. 40 Perhaps a Super Royalty or Top Up Royalty tied to library holding statistics - and perhaps paid by the industry from out-of-...
The Role of Story Telling The Miles Franklin prize also honours the great art of story telling. 43 You may remember that in the Dad and Dave stories by Steele Rudd, Dave Rudd is described as being 'often reduced to silence'....
53 I thank you all for joining with me tonight to celebrate the remarkable Australian flowering in the art of storytelling. 54 And I want to thank those of you here tonight who have supported me and helped me through the dark times and the grand times....
'The fall of Paris is not only a French disaster,' he said, 'the fall of Paris is a disaster for civilization. 11 The Miles Franklin is an award for a piece of work that presents aspects of Australian life. ...
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