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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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Miles Franklin - australian screen (website australianscreen )During the drought of 1898, headstrong and vivacious Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis) dreams of escaping the drudgery of farm life for a career as a writer. This list shows all the titles currently on australianscreen that include Miles Franklin in a principa...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Franklin, Stella Maria ( Marian) Sarah Miles (1879 - 1954) © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Angus & Robertson in association with State Library of New South Wales, Pymble, NSW, 1993 Franklin, Stella Maria ( Marian) Sarah Miles (1...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Passionate Friends: Mary Fullerton, Mabel Singleton and Miles Franklin © Copyright The Australian Women's Register 2009...
The collection comprises personal and literary papers of Miles Franklin. Literary papers include manuscripts and publishing papers of Miles Franklin, as well as literary papers of Mary Fullerton. The collection also includes family papers of the Frankli...
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Both sides of correspondence with Jean Devanney between August 1939 and May 1954 are recorded in this series Daniels, Kay, Murnane, Mary,...
Autograph book known as Miles Franklin's Waratah Book. One cover is embossed 'Writing Album'. The other cover is inscribed ' The Book of the Waratah Cup"....
An initiative of The National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW) in conjunction with The University of Melbourne Allen & Unwin in association with State Library of NSW, Crows Nest NSW, 2004, 304 pp Franklin, Stella Maria ( Marian) Sarah Miles (1879 -...
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