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The Year That Was
Kunapipi Volume 2 Issue 1 Article 18 1980 The Year That Was Anna Rutherford University of Aarhus, Denmark Follow this and additional works at: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi Part of the Arts and Humanities Commons Recommended Citation Rutherford, Anna, The Year That Was, Kunapipi, 2(1), 1980. Available at:https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss1/18 Research Online is the open access institutional repository for the University of Wollongong. For further information contact the UOW Library: [email protected] The Year That Was Abstract Australia It's been a year for the bizarre in Australian fiction: a transvestite who is a Byzantine empress/ station hand/ whore-mistress; a narrating foetus; a plantation owner who takes you out at night to wrestle renegade pineapples to the ground; characters with words stamped on their foreheads and one with a coffin owinggr out of his side ... This journal article is available in Kunapipi: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol2/iss1/18 The Year That Was AUSTRALIA It's been a year for the bizarre in Australian fiction: a transvestite who is a Byzantine empress/ station hand/ whore-mistress; a narrating foetus; a plantation owner who takes you out at night to wrestle renegade pine apples to the ground; characters with words stamped on their foreheads and one with a coffin growing out of his side ... Little did Synge know when he said there should be material for drama with all those 'shepherds going mad in lonely huts'! The theme of the year's most remarkable book, Patrick White's The Twybom Affair Oonathan Cape) is caught early when one of its charac· ters remarks, 'The difference between the sexes is no worse than their appalling similarity'. -
Biographical Information
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ADAMS, Glenda (1940- ) b Sydney, moved to New York to write and study 1964; 2 vols short fiction, 2 novels including Hottest Night of the Century (1979) and Dancing on Coral (1986); Miles Franklin Award 1988. ADAMSON, Robert (1943- ) spent several periods of youth in gaols; 8 vols poetry; leading figure in 'New Australian Poetry' movement, editor New Poetry in early 1970s. ANDERSON, Ethel (1883-1958) b England, educated Sydney, lived in India; 2 vols poetry, 2 essay collections, 3 vols short fiction, including At Parramatta (1956). ANDERSON, Jessica (1925- ) 5 novels, including Tirra Lirra by the River (1978), 2 vols short fiction, including Stories from the Warm Zone and Sydney Stories (1987); Miles Franklin Award 1978, 1980, NSW Premier's Award 1980. AsTLEY, Thea (1925- ) teacher, novelist, writer of short fiction, editor; 10 novels, including A Kindness Cup (1974), 2 vols short fiction, including It's Raining in Mango (1987); 3 times winner Miles Franklin Award, Steele Rudd Award 1988. ATKINSON, Caroline (1834-72) first Australian-born woman novelist; 2 novels, including Gertrude the Emigrant (1857). BAIL, Murray (1941- ) 1 vol. short fiction, 2 novels, Homesickness (1980) and Holden's Performance (1987); National Book Council Award, Age Book of the Year Award 1980, Victorian Premier's Award 1988. BANDLER, Faith (1918- ) b Murwillumbah, father a Vanuatuan; 2 semi autobiographical novels, Wacvie (1977) and Welou My Brother (1984); strongly identified with struggle for Aboriginal rights. BAYNTON, Barbara (1857-1929) b Scone, NSW; 1 vol. short fiction, Bush Studies (1902), 1 novel; after 1904 alternated residence between Australia and England. -
Media Release Winners Announced
Media Release Winners announced for 2013 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 19/5/13 The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards were announced tonight at the State Library of NSW, with a total of $305,000 offered across 12 prizes. NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell said: “I am once again delighted to see a wealth of varied and innovative works in this year’s Premier’s Literary Awards. The winners are indicative of the high standard of Australian literature and writing which is so highly regarded, both here and internationally.” Minister for the Arts, George Souris MP, commented: “The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards are an opportunity for NSW to celebrate and encourage Australia’s literary community. While providing financial support to some of our nation’s best writers – both established and emerging – we recognise that reading books and writing are an important part of the arts and creative industries, and of great value to our culture.” According to Senior Judge, Dr Kathryn Heyman: “Australian writers are engaging fiercely and lyrically with issues of contemporary importance, and bringing new insights to past stories.” “It’s fantastic to see winning titles from both small presses and main house publishers,” said Dr Heyman. Judges’ comments on the winning titles are attached. Categories and winners: Christina Stead Prize (Fiction, $40,000) THE Y OF EA S R K O B Mateship with Birds, Carrie Tiffany (Pan Macmillan Australia) O O O B K R S A O E F Y UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ($5,000) T E H H E T Y The Last Thread, Michael Sala (Affirm Press) F E A -
Australian Psycho by Geordie Williamson
Australian Psycho by Geordie Williamson IT WAS while working at Shell’s Clyde oil refinery in Sydney during the early sixties that David Ireland, a working-class boy who left school at fifteen, began his first novel, The Chantic Bird. Written on note cards between Ireland’s shifts operating a catalytic cracker, it remains one of the most astonishing debuts in Australian literature. Not just because of the unlikely background of its creator—the Fiercely Gifted Autodidact is a cliché—but because it is sui generis. No document of its time gives so distinct a sense of literary modernism adapted to local conditions. While the everyday experience of the refinery found its way into Ireland’s second novel, The Unknown Industrial Prisoner, The Chantic Bird contains the psychic residue of his time there. It’s a book which suggests that wage-slavery is not a figure of speech. And it is the opening boast of Ireland’s unnamed narrator, echoing the immortal first line of Joseph Furphy’s Such Is Life (‘Unemployed at last!’), that he has just been sacked from his seventeenth job ‘for fighting or gambling—I don’t know which—and because I was hardly ever there’: vii Ireland_Chantic_prelims_intro.indd 7 3/02/2015 1:29 pm I was gambling all right, but someone called me a cheat and swung at me, I moved my head and swung back and this kid went in to one of the bosses with blood coming out of his mouth saying I was a standover man. At least the man that lectured me before they gave me my pay said I was a standover man, but he’d been a policeman before he got this good job as personnel officer, so he might have been a bit homesick for the force and a good old backhander in the friendly atmosphere of the charge room. -
New Century Antiquarian Books
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Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams Introduced by Susan Wyndham the True Story of Spit Macphee James Aldridge Introduced by Phillip Gw
Dancing on Coral A Difficult oungY Man Glenda Adams Martin Boyd Introduced by Susan Wyndham Introduced by Sonya Hartnett The True Story of Spit MacPhee Outbreak of Love James Aldridge Martin Boyd Introduced by Phillip Gwynne Introduced by Chris Womersley The Commandant When Blackbirds Sing Jessica Anderson Martin Boyd Introduced by Carmen Callil Introduced by Chris Wallace-Crabbe Homesickness The Australian Ugliness Murray Bail Robin Boyd Introduced by Peter Conrad Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas Sydney Bridge Upside Down All the Green Year David Ballantyne Don Charlwood Introduced by Kate De Goldi Introduced by Michael McGirr Bush Studies They Found a Cave Barbara Baynton Nan Chauncy Introduced by Helen Garner Introduced by John Marsden The Cardboard Crown The Even More Complete Martin Boyd Book of Australian Verse Introduced by Brenda Niall John Clarke Classics_endmatter_2015.indd 1 5/10/2015 4:04 pm Diary of a Bad Year My Brilliant Career J. M. Coetzee Miles Franklin Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy Introduced by Jennifer Byrne Wake in Fright Such Is Life Kenneth Cook Joseph Furphy Introduced by Peter Temple Introduced by David Malouf The Dying Trade The Fringe Dwellers Peter Corris Nene Gare Introduced by Charles Waterstreet Introduced by Melissa Lucashenko They’re a Weird Mob Cosmo Cosmolino Nino Culotta Helen Garner Introduced by Jacinta Tynan Introduced by Ramona Koval Aunts Up the Cross Wish Robin Dalton Peter Goldsworthy Introduced by Clive James Introduced by James Bradley The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke Dark Places C. J. Dennis -
Dancing on Coral Glenda Adams Introduced by Susan Wyndham The
Dancing on Coral Drylands Glenda Adams Thea Astley Introduced by Susan Wyndham Introduced by Emily Maguire The True Story of Spit MacPhee Homesickness James Aldridge Murray Bail Introduced by Phillip Gwynne Introduced by Peter Conrad The Commandant Sydney Bridge Upside Down Jessica Anderson David Ballantyne Introduced by Carmen Callil Introduced by Kate De Goldi A Kindness Cup Bush Studies Thea Astley Barbara Baynton Introduced by Kate Grenville Introduced by Helen Garner Reaching Tin River Between Sky & Sea Thea Astley Herz Bergner Introduced by Jennifer Down Introduced by Arnold Zable The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow The Cardboard Crown Thea Astley Martin Boyd Introduced by Chloe Hooper Introduced by Brenda Niall classics_endmatter_2018.indd 1 21/02/2018 3:20 PM A Difficult Young Man Diary of a Bad Year Martin Boyd J. M. Coetzee Introduced by Sonya Hartnett Introduced by Peter Goldsworthy Outbreak of Love Wake in Fright Martin Boyd Kenneth Cook Introduced by Chris Womersley Introduced by Peter Temple When Blackbirds Sing The Dying Trade Martin Boyd Peter Corris Introduced by Chris Wallace-Crabbe Introduced by Charles Waterstreet The Australian Ugliness They’re a Weird Mob Robin Boyd Nino Culotta Introduced by Christos Tsiolkas Introduced by Jacinta Tynan The Life and Adventures of Aunts Up the Cross William Buckley Robin Dalton Introduced by Tim Flannery Introduced by Clive James The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke The Dyehouse C. J. Dennis Mena Calthorpe Introduced by Jack Thompson Introduced by Fiona McFarlane Careful, He Might Hear