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The 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 ...
Flood Manuscripts offers assessment, editing and mentoring for published and unpublished writers by Miles Franklin winning author Tom Flood.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
Born in the 19th Century but famous in the 20th, author and feminist Miles Franklin is well known for her own place in our literary history. To hear excerpts from the speech see the accompanying audio. "Today I attempt nothing beyond a humble personal tri...
The 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...
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The Miles Franklin award was set up under the terms of the will of the late Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin, the famed Australian author who died in September 1954. The winner of the 2003 award was Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller. The Art o...
Miles Franklin was born Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin in 1879 on the grazing property, Talbingo, of her maternal grandmother near Tumut in New South Wales. After the publication of My Brilliant Career in 1901, Franklin tried a career in nursing, and ...
Dustjacket synopsis: "The fruit of a unique colaboration between two of Australia's best-known and best-loved writers - Miles Franklin, famed for sparkling works like My Brilliant Career, and Dymphna Cusack, co-author of Come in Spinner, Australia's great...
"With shrewd observation it relates the antics of the social-climbing Audrey du Mont-Brankston; the world-weary and resigned Lord Cravenburn; his daughter, the jaded, wilful nymphet, Lady Lucy; and the naive boy-from-the-bush William Brankston, who falls ...
"Back to Bool Bool was first published in 1931, following Up the Country (1928) and Ten Creeks Run (1930). Mollye Brennan, known as Austra, has become a world-famed singer; Dick Mazere, a poet; Freda Healey, a brilliant commentator on life; Oswald Mazere...
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