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THEA ASTLEY a BIBLIOGRAPHY Compiled by Ross Smith And THEA ASTLEY A BIBLIOGRAPHY Compiled by Ross Smith and Cheryl Frost I. PUBLICATIONS A. EDITIONS Novels Girl with a monkey. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1958; Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1977. A descant for gossips. London, Angus & Robertson, 1960; Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1960; Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1968. The well dressed explorer. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1962; Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1977. [Joint winner of the Miles Franklin award for 1962.] The slow natives. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1965; London, Angus & Robertson, 1966; Melbourne, Sun Books, 1966; New York, M. Evans, 1967; Sydney, Angus & Robertson, Classics Edition, 1976. [Winner of the Miles Franklin award for 1965, and the Moomba award.] A boat load of home folk. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1968; Ringwood Victoria, Penguin, 1983. The acolyte. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1972; Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1980. [Winner of the Miles Franklin award for 1972.] A kindness cup. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1974. 87 8. An item from the late news. St Lucia, University of Queensland Press, 1982. Short Stories 9 Hunting the wild pineapple and other related stories. Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1979; Rmgwood Victoria, Penguin, 1981. Criticism Three Australian writers: essays on Bruce Dawe, Barbara Baynton and Patrick White. Townsville, Foun- dation for Australian Literary Studies, 1979. Editing Coast to coast: Australian stories, 1969-70. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1970. B. SHORT STORIES, POEMS, ARTICLES, REVIEWS Poetic Lire [critical article]. BARJAI 13, March 1944, 6-7. From Troy [poem]. BARJAI 13, March 1944, 12. To H.; Saturday night [poems]. BARJAI 14, May 1944, 3. "Look!" sang the boy [poem]. BARJAI 15, July 1944, 12. Creation [poem; won guinea prize donated by James Devaney for BARJAI competition]. BARJAI 15, July 1944, 16. Idiot [poem]. BARJAI 16, September-October 1944, 5. For the pleasure of Laurie [sonnet]. BARJAI 17, November-December 1944, 9. Sonnet: To Francis Thompson.- GALMAHRA 1-944, 8. Song [poem] . GALMAHRA 1944, 14. Two poems. BARJAI 18, 1945, 13. The unwanted [poem]. BARJAI 19, 1945, 13. Vignette [poem] . GALMAHRA 1945, 24. 88 Returned man; Culture, 1945 [poem]. GALMAHRA 1945, 25. Juveniia [poem]. BARJAI 20, 1946, 17. Short story [poem] . AUSTRALIAN POETRY 1953, 48. The piccaninny thoughts [poem]. BULLETIN June 9, 1954, 13. Droving man [poem]. AUSTRALIAN POETRY 1956, p. 52. Reprinted in R.S. Byrnes and Val Vallis, eds. The Queensland centenary anthology. London, Longmans, 1959, p. 221; and Douglas Stewart, ed. Poetry in Australia. Volume II. Modern Australian verse. Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1964, pp. 17 6-7. A last year's hero [poem]. AUSTRALIAN POETRY 1957, 15. Cubby [short story]. Coast to coast: Australian stories 1959-60, pp. 6-11. The scenery never changes [short story]. Coast to coast: Australian stories 1961-62, pp. 201-5. Reprinted in Hal Porter, ed. It could be you. Adelaide, Rigby, 1972, pp. 89-94. After Tasman [poem]. BULLETIN April 21, 1962, 60. Reprinted in Bulletin Centenary Issue January 29, 1980, 329. Double vision [short story]. VISION 1, no. 2, 1963, 23-8. Journey to Olympus [short story]. Coast to coast: Australian stories 1963-64, pp. 7-14. Beatle brows [review of Brian James, ed. Australian short stories, second series]. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW 3, no. 7, May 1964, 139. Stories of a Punjabi family in Australia [review of Mena Abdullah and Ray Mathew. The time of the peacock]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD September 4, 1965, p. 17. Tles from Canada and Australia [review of Kylie Tennant, ed. Summer tales 2 and Mavis Callant. An unmarried man's summer]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD January 8, 1966, p. 15. 89 The ugly American: a woman's view [review of Barbara Skelton. Born losers and Gerald Kersh. The hospital of Miss Tolliver]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD January 11, 1966, P. 19. Irwin Shaw: Sex war reporter [review of I. Shaw. Love on a dark street and C. Zahn. American contemporary]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD February 26, 1966, p. 2. The virtuosity of Hal Porter [review of Hal Porter. The cats of Venice]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 9, 1966, p. 13. Stories from many lands [review of Martha Geihorn. Pretty tales for tired people; Yuri Kazakov. The smell of bread; and Michael Ratciffe. Voices 2]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 23, 1966,p. 13. Trouble with the natives [interview]. SYDNEY MORN- ING HERALD May 24, 1966, p. 6. A writer of distinction [review of Janet Frame. The reservoir and other stories]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD July 30, 1966, p. 18. Coming of age [short story—reminiscence]. NORTH no. 5, 1966, 9-13. Short stories take wide range [review of John Iggulden, ed. Summer tales 3; and Clement Semmier, ed. Coast to coast: Australian stories 1965-66]. SYDNEY MORN- ING HERALD January 28, 1967, p. 16. Well, we've heard of sleeping on it [interview]. SYD- NEY MORNING HERALD September 23, 1968, p. 6. The monstrous accent on youth [article]. MEANJIN 27, no. 1, 1968, 109-10. The idiot question [article]. SOUTHERLY 30, no. 1, 1970, 3-8. - Exploring Australian writing [review of Brian Kiernan. Images of society and nature: seven essays on Australian novels; and Christopher Wallace-Crabbe. The Australian nationalists: modern critical essays]. SYDNEY MORN- ING HERALD December 4, 1971, p. 19. Delius did it [letter to the editor on The acolyte]. BULLETIN October 7, 1972, 4. 90 On the circuit [short story]. NATION REVIEW March 22-28, 1974, p. 721. Seeing Mrs Landers [short story]. Brian Buckley and Jim Hamilton, eds. Festival and other stories. Melbourne, Wren Publishing, 1974, pp. 3 5-9. Work in progress [extract from unpublished novel, A kindness cup]. SOUTHERN REVIEW 7, no. 2, July 1974, 126-39. The higher illiteracy [article]. NATIONAL TIMES September 29-October 4, 1975, p. 13. The Queenslanders [review of David Malouf. Johnno; Rodney Hall. A place among people; Robert Mackim. The Queenslander]. NATIONAL TIMES June 28- July 3, 1976, p. 23. Being a Queenslander: a form of literary and geographi- cal conceit. The sixth Herbert Blaiklock memorial lecture delivered at the University of Sydney, 23rd June, 1976. Sydney, Wentworth Press, 1978; SOUTHERLY 36, no. 3, 1976, 252-64. Review of LiNQ 9, no. 2. TOWNSVILLE DAILY BULLETIN September 5, 1981, p. 10. Writing in North Queensland [paper read at a seminar in Townsville on North Queensland writing, organized by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, August 1980]. LiNQ 9, no. 1, 1981, 2-10. The salad of the bad café [short story]. LiNQ 9, no. 1, 1981, 101-7. Statement about the short story in response to a ques- tionnaire to authors. AUSTRALIAN LITERARY STUDIES 10, no. 2, 1981, 186-7. Travelling even farther North [short story]. MEANJIN 41, no. 4, 1982, 439-4L Not quite the same [short story]. AUSTRALIAN WEEKEND MAGAZINE January 8, 1983, p.4. 91 Unpublished letters Letter, July 15, 1944, to Paul Grano, sending nine poems for criticism [manuscript]. FRYER LIBRARY MANU- SCRIPT CATALOGUE. Seven letters (November 12, 1944-September 9, 1958) to Martin Haley, regarding Girl with a monkey, personal news, and thanks for reading matter sent [holograph and typescript]. MARTIN HALEY COLLECrION, FRYER LIBRARY. II. BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL MATERIAL A. GENERAL REVIEWS, ARTICLES Note that Thea Astley is to be new sub-editor of BAR- JAI. BARJAI 15, July 1944, 23. Ewers, John K., ed. Creative writing in Australia: a critical survey. Melbourne, Georgian House, 1945, pp. 196-8. Hadgraft, Cecil. Queensland and its writers. Brisbane, University of Queensland Press, 1959, pp. 77-8. Novel situation. Patricia Rolfe. BULLETIN January 26, 1963, 14-15. Two authors share literary award [article on 1962 Miles Franklin award, won by Thea Astley for The well dressed explorer and George Turner for The cupboard under the stairs]. NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER April 20, 1963, p. 15. Teacher wins book prize. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD March 5, 1966, p. 11. Award to Sydney novelist. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 21, 1966, p. 4. Moomba Prize to Thea Astley. LITERARY LETFER no. 35, 1966, 2. 1965 Miles Franklin Award to Thea Astley. LITERARY LETTER no. 36, 1966, 1. The novels of Thea Astley. J.M. Couper. MEANJIN 26, no. 3, 1967, 332-7. Why write novels? Sandra Hall. BULLETIN October 26, 1968, 52-4. Thea Astley: novelist and teacher. Clifford Tolchard. WALKABOUT 35, no. 6, July 1969, 12-15. 92 Top novelist to visit North Queensland. NORTH QUEENSLAND REGISTER August 9, 1969, p. 13. The underdog-outsider: the achievement of Mathers' Trap. Robert Burns.[discusses Mathers' Trap in relation to The siow natives and other recent novels]. MEAN- JIN 29, no. 1, 1970, 95-105. Australian fiction since 1960. D.R. Burns. WORLD LITERATURE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH (University of Texas at Arlington) 11, no. 2, 1972, 53-63. Sydney writer wins award for novel. CANBERRA TIMES April 11, 1973, p. 3. Third award win. Authoress of The acolyte. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD April 11, 1973, p. 2. Grant winner wants only to write. Geraldine Pascall. AUSTRALIAN April 11, 1973, p. 3. Life in the eye of the hurricane. The novels of Thea Astley. Brian Matthews. SOUTHERN REVIEW 6, no. 2, June 1973, 148-73. Ironic twist [Author intended to dedicate A kindness cup to Queensland Premier]. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD November 20, 1974, p. 7. Novelist gets $3000 surprise. Mark Baker. AGE Novem- ber 22, 1975, p. 2. Author Thea Astley wins award. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD November 25, 1975, p. 12. Burns, D.R. The directions of Australian fiction 1920- 1974. Melbourne, Cassell Australia, 1975. The way of extravagance—Hal Porter and Thea Astley, pp. 23 1-44. Thea Astley, the novelist next door. Ellen Nash. CLEO no. 44, June 1976, 25-7. Thea Astley: writing in the rainforest. Lenore Nicklin. SYDNEY MORNING HERALD October 13, 1979, p. 14. Tq battle over papers. Helen Frizell. SYDNEY MORN- ING HERALD March 26, 1980, p.
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