90-591: The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland 's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented in 1967 and now has a prize of A$ 50,000. Starting in 1980, the H. T. Priestley Memorial Medal has also been bestowed upon the award winner. The Award
180-537: A World Fantasy Award for Best Artist , and a Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist . A generation of leading contemporary international writers who left Australia for Britain and the United States in the 1960s have remained regular and passionate contributors of Australian themed literary works throughout their careers including: Clive James , Robert Hughes , Barry Humphries , Geoffrey Robertson and Germaine Greer . Several of these writers had links to
270-698: A "neglect of Australian literature" by universities and "British dominated" publishing houses—citing out of print Miles Franklin award winners such as David Ireland 's The Glass Canoe and Sumner Locke Elliott 's Careful, He Might Hear You as key examples. Ethel Turner 's Seven Little Australians , which relates the adventures of seven mischievous children in Sydney, has been in print since 1894, longer than any other Australian children's novel. The Getting of Wisdom (1910) by Henry Handel Richardson , about an unconventional schoolgirl in Melbourne, has enjoyed
360-837: A Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America , in which he advocated an elected assembly for New South Wales, trial by jury and settlement of Australia by free emigrants rather than convicts The first novel to be published in Australia was a crime novel, Quintus Servinton: A Tale founded upon Incidents of Real Occurrence by Henry Savery published in Hobart in 1830. Early popular works tended to be
450-516: A Sydney high school girl Looking for Alibrandi . Robin Klein 's Came Back to Show You I Could Fly is a story about the beautiful relationship between an eleven-year-old boy and an older, drug-addicted girl. Jackie French , widely described as Australia's most popular children's author, has written about 170 books, including two CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award winners. One of them,
540-496: A break, he worked on a model ship some days. He was highly inventive, melting down the lead casings of oil paint tubes to use for the figures on his model ships, made a large easel using a door, carved and decorated furniture, designed and built chairs, created garden planters, Roman columns and built his own additions to the Faulconbridge property. Lindsay also worked as an editorial cartoonist, notable for often illustrating
630-495: A classic work of Australian children's literature. Apart from his creative output, Lindsay was known for his larrikin attitudes and personal libertine philosophy, as well as his battles with what he termed " wowserism " (strict moral conservatism). One such battle is portrayed in the 1994 film Sirens , starring Sam Neill as Lindsay and filmed on location at Lindsay's home in the Blue Mountains , west of Sydney . It
720-695: A collection of interlinked semi-autobiographical short stories, explores the authentic experiences of working-class Australians in the suburbs, including issues such as drug addiction and a sense of disillusionment. Australia has migrant groups from many countries, and members of those communities (not always of the first generation) have produced Australian writing in a variety of languages. These include Italian , Greek , Arabic , Chinese , Vietnamese , Lao , Filipino , Latvian , Ukrainian , Polish , Russian , Serbian , Yiddish and Irish . Comparatively little attention has been devoted to such writing by mainstream critics. It has been argued that, in relation to
810-414: A conservative, wealthy Anglo-Australian family, he later wrote of conviction in left-wing causes and lived as a homosexual. Never destined for life on the land, he enrolled at Cambridge where he became a published poet. White developed as a novelist, but also had major theatrical success—including The Season at Sarsaparilla . White followed The Tree of Man with Voss , which became the first winner of
900-811: A fictionalised version of Lindsay in John Duigan 's Sirens , set and filmed primarily at Lindsay's Faulconbridge home. The film is also notable as the movie debut of Australian supermodel Elle Macpherson . In 1972 five novels were adapted for TV as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation 's Norman Lindsay festival. These were Halfway to Anywhere (adapted by Cliff Green ), Redheap (adapted by Eleanor Witcombe ), A Curate in Bohemia (adapted by Michael Boddy ), The Cousin from Fiji (adapted by Barbara Vernon ) and Dust or Polish (adapted by Peter Kenna ). Searches of
990-449: A general flightiness. Romantic love is seldom, as instant gratification has become the norm. It has been described as both a sub-set of dirty realism and an offshoot of Generation X literature. The term "grunge" is from the 1990s-era music genre of grunge . The genre was first coined in 1995 following the success of Andrew McGahan 's first novel Praise which had been released in 1991 and became popular with sub-30-year-old readers,
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#17327825371241080-532: A local magazine with his older brother Lionel. His Melbourne experiences are described in Rooms and Houses . In 1901, he and Lionel joined the staff of the Sydney Bulletin , a weekly newspaper, magazine and review. His association there would last fifty years. Lindsay travelled to Europe in 1909, Rose followed later. In Naples he began 100 pen-and-ink illustrations for Petronius' Satyricon . Visits to
1170-598: A number of historical works on Australia (including The Art of Australia (1966) and The Fatal Shore (1987)). Barry Humphries took his dadaist absurdist theatrical talents and pen to London in the 1960s, becoming an institution on British television and later attaining popularity in the USA. Humphries' outlandish Australian caricatures, including Dame Edna Everage , Barry McKenzie and Les Patterson have starred in books, stage and screen to great acclaim over five decades and his biographer Anne Pender described him in 2010 as
1260-627: A philosophical system outlined in his book Creative Effort . He also illustrated the cover for the seminal Henry Lawson book, While the Billy Boils . Lindsay's son, Jack Lindsay , emigrated to England, where he set up Fanfrolico Press , which issued works illustrated by Lindsay. Lindsay influenced numerous artists, notably the illustrators Roy Krenkel and Frank Frazetta ; he was also good friends with Ernest Moffitt . His frank and sumptuous nudes were highly controversial, and critics' evaluations vary considerably; in 1934 Basil Burdett called
1350-707: A place for herself as a female writer in Australia, fictionalising this experience in My Brilliant Career (1901). Marie Bjelke Petersen 's popular romance novels, published between 1917 and 1937, offered a fresh upbeat interpretation of the Australian bush. The central character in Patrick White 's The Twyborn Affair tries to conform to expectations of pre–World War II Australian masculinity but cannot, and instead, post-war, tries out another identity—and gender—overseas. Peter Carey has toyed with
1440-562: A previously under-investigated demographic . Other authors considered to be "grunge lit" include Linda Jaivin , Fiona McGregor and Justine Ettler . Since its invention, the term "grunge lit" has been retrospectively applied to novels written as early as 1977, namely Helen Garner 's Monkey Grip . Grunge lit is often raw, explicit, and vulgar, even to the point of Ettler's The River Ophelia (1995) being called pornographic. The term "grunge lit" and its use to categorize and market this diverse group of writers and authorial styles has been
1530-503: A similar success and been praised by H. G. Wells and Germaine Greer . Other perennial favourites of Australian children's literature include Dorothy Wall 's Blinky Bill , Ethel Pedley 's Dot and the Kangaroo , May Gibbs ' Snugglepot and Cuddlepie , Norman Lindsay 's The Magic Pudding , Ruth Park 's The Muddleheaded Wombat and Mem Fox 's Possum Magic . These classic works employ anthropomorphism to bring alive
1620-450: A single mother living on and off with a male heroin addict in Melbourne share housing. Norman Lindsay Norman Alfred William Lindsay (22 February 1879 – 21 November 1969) was an Australian artist, etcher, sculptor, writer, art critic, novelist, cartoonist and amateur boxer . One of the most prolific and popular Australian artists of his generation, Lindsay attracted both acclaim and controversy for his works, many of which infused
1710-529: Is a Gothic romance. Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ) and Jeannie Gunn ( We of the Never Never ) wrote of lives of European pioneers in the Australian bush from a female perspective. Albert Facey wrote of the experiences of the Goldfields and of Gallipoli ( A Fortunate Life ). Ruth Park wrote of the sectarian divisions of life in impoverished 1940s inner city Sydney ( The Harp in
1800-484: Is a popular and influential work on early Australian history. Marcia Langton is one of the principal contemporary Indigenous Australian academics and her 2008 collaboration with Rachel Perkins chronicles Australian history from an Indigenous perspective: First Australians. An Illustrated History . A complicated, multi-faceted relationship to Australia is displayed in much Australian writing, often through writing about landscape. Barbara Baynton 's short stories from
1890-482: Is an Australian literary genre usually applied to fictional or semi-autobiographical writing concerned with dissatisfied and disenfranchised young people living in suburban or inner-city surroundings. It was typically written by "new, young authors" who examined "gritty, dirty, real existences", of lower-income young people, whose lives revolve around a nihilistic pursuit of casual sex , recreational drug use and alcohol , which are used to escape boredom or
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#17327825371241980-532: Is an historical fiction by Kate Grenville imagining encounters between Aboriginal and colonial Australia which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The Slap (2008) was an internationally successful novel by Christos Tsiolkas which was adapted for television by ABC1 in 2011, and was described in a review by Gerard Windsor as "something of an anatomy of the rising Australian middle class". Grunge lit (an abbreviation for "grunge literature")
2070-628: Is buried in Springwood Cemetery in Springwood , close to Faulconbridge where he lived. A large body of his work is housed in his former home at Faulconbridge, New South Wales , now the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum , and many works reside in private and corporate collections. His art continues to climb in value today. In 2002, a record price was attained for his oil painting Spring's Innocence , which sold to
2160-400: Is linked to the broader tradition of English literature . However, the narrative art of Australian writers has, since 1788, introduced the character of a new continent into literature—exploring such themes as Aboriginality , mateship , egalitarianism , democracy , national identity, migration, Australia's unique location and geography, the complexities of urban living, and " the beauty and
2250-685: Is now known as the Norman Lindsay Gallery and Museum and is maintained by the National Trust of Australia . Lindsay was born in Creswick, Victoria , the son of Anglo-Irish surgeon Robert Charles William Alexander Lindsay (1843–1915) and Jane Elizabeth Lindsay (1848–1932), daughter of Rev. Thomas Williams, Wesleyen missionary, from Creswick. The fifth of ten children, he was the brother of Percy Lindsay (1870–1952), Lionel Lindsay (1874–1961), Ruby Lindsay (1885–1919), and Daryl Lindsay (1889–1976). In 1895, Lindsay moved to Melbourne to work on
2340-621: The Australian Parliament . AustLit 's BlackWords project provides a comprehensive listing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Writers and Storytellers. Writing about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples At the point of the first colonization, Indigenous Australians had not developed a system of writing, so the first literary accounts of Aboriginal people come from the journals of early European explorers, which contain descriptions of first contact, both violent and friendly. Early accounts by Dutch explorers and by
2430-659: The Miles Franklin Award . A subsequent novel, Riders in the Chariot also received a Miles Franklin award—but White later refused to permit his novels to be entered for literary prizes. He turned down a knighthood, and various literary awards—but in 1973 accepted the Nobel prize. David Marr wrote of biography of White in 1991. J. M. Coetzee , who was born in South Africa and was resident there when awarded
2520-568: The National Gallery of Victoria for A$ 333,900. The first major screen adaptation of Lindsay's literary works was the 1953 British film Our Girl Friday , based on his 1934 novel The Cautious Amorist . The 1969 Australian-British co-production Age of Consent , adapted from Lindsay's 1938 novel of the same name, was the last full-length feature film directed by Michael Powell , and starred James Mason and Helen Mirren in her first credited movie role. In 1994, Sam Neill played
2610-581: The Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, now lives in Adelaide, South Australia, and is an Australian citizen. Colleen McCullough 's The Thorn Birds , 1977, is Australia's highest selling novel and one of the biggest selling novels of all time with around 30 million copies sold by 2009. Thomas Keneally wrote The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith , 1972 and Schindler's Ark , 1982. This latter work
2700-694: The Silver Brumby series, a collection by Elyne Mitchell which recount the life and adventures of Thowra, a Snowy Mountains brumby stallion ; Storm Boy (1964), by Colin Thiele, about a boy and his pelican and the relationships he has with his father, the pelican, and an outcast Aboriginal man called Fingerbone; the Sydney-based Victorian era time travel adventure Playing Beatie Bow (1980) by Ruth Park ; and, for older children and mature readers, Melina Marchetta 's 1993 novel about
2790-607: The Sydney Push intellectual sub-culture in Sydney from the late 1940s to the early 1970s; and to Oz , a satirical magazine originating in Sydney, and later produced in London (from 1967 to 1973). After a long media career, Clive James remained a leading humourist and author based in Britain whose memoir series was rich in reflections on Australian society (including his 2007 book Cultural Amnesia ). Robert Hughes has produced
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2880-402: The vernacular language of the common Australian. These novelists also gave valuable insights into the penal colonies which helped form the country and also the early rural settlements. In 1838 The Guardian: a tale by Anna Maria Bunn was published in Sydney. It was the first Australian novel printed and published in mainland Australia and the first Australian novel written by a woman. It
2970-481: The "otherwise solitary bush" in which men would often "stand by one another through thick and thin; in fact it is a universal feeling that a man ought to be able to trust his own mate in anything". Henry Lawson , a son of the Goldfields wrote extensively of an egalitarian mateship, in such works as A Sketch of Mateship and Shearers , in which he wrote: What it means to be Australian is another issue that Australian literature explores. Miles Franklin struggled to find
3060-483: The 'ripping yarn' variety, telling tales of derring-do against the new frontier of the Australian outback . Writers such as Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ), Marcus Clarke ( For the Term of His Natural Life ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ) and Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ) embodied these stirring ideals in their tales and, particularly the latter, tried to accurately record
3150-701: The 1990s Australian literary genre known as grunge lit . Michael Robert Christie's 2009 PhD dissertation, "Unbecoming-of-Age: Australian Grunge Fiction, the Bildungsroman and the Long Labor Decade" states that there is a genre called "post Grunge [lit]" which follows the grunge lit period. Christie names three examples of Australian "post-grunge lit": Elliot Perlman 's Three Dollars (1998), Andrew McCann 's Subtopia (2005) and Anthony Macris ' Capital . Christie's dissertation interprets and explains these three post-grunge lit works "as responses to
3240-686: The 2008 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award and Shaun Tan , who won in 2011. Hartnett has a long and distinguished career, publishing her first novel at 15. She is known for her dark and often controversial themes. She has won several awards, including the Kathleen Mitchell Award and the Victorian Premier's Award for Sleeping Dogs , Guardian Children's Fiction Prize and the Aurealis Award, Best Young Adult Novel (Australian speculative fiction) for Thursday's Child and
3330-480: The 21st century include Kim Scott , Alexis Wright , Kate Howarth , Tara June Winch , Yvette Holt and Anita Heiss . Indigenous authors who have won Australia's high prestige Miles Franklin Award include Kim Scott who was joint winner (with Thea Astley ) in 2000 for Benang and again in 2011 for That Deadman Dance . Alexis Wright won the award in 2007 for her novel Carpentaria . Melissa Lucashenko won
3420-618: The ABC's TARA Online television database, and the collection database of the National Film & Sound Archive conducted in March 2009, failed to return any results for these programs. Regrettably, many videotaped ABC programs, series such as Certain Women and program segments from the late 1960s and early 1970s, were subsequently erased as part of an ill-considered economy drive. Although
3510-438: The Australian classics, while Melina Marchetta ( Looking for Alibrandi ) is a modern YA classic. Eminent Australian playwrights have included Ray Lawler , David Williamson , Alan Seymour and Nick Enright . Among prominent short story writers are Steele Rudd , Henry Lawson , Beverley Farmer , Kate Grenville , and Helen Garner . Although historically only a small proportion of Australia's population have lived outside
3600-530: The Australian landscape with erotic pagan elements and were deemed by his critics to be "anti-Christian, anti-social and degenerate". A vocal nationalist , he became a regular artist for The Bulletin at the height of its cultural influence, and advanced staunchly anti- modernist views as a leading writer on Australian art . When friend and literary critic Bertram Stevens argued that children like to read about fairies rather than food, Lindsay wrote and illustrated The Magic Pudding (1918), now considered
3690-556: The Australian landscape. In 1971, Southall won the Carnegie Medal for Josh . In 1986, Patricia Wrightson received the international Hans Christian Andersen Award . The Children's Book Council of Australia has presented annual awards for books of literary merit since 1946 and has other awards for outstanding contributions to Australian children's literature. Notable winners and shortlisted works have inspired several well-known Australian films from original novels, including
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3780-604: The Booker Prize in 2003. Other notable writers to have emerged since the 1970s include Kate Grenville , David Malouf , Helen Garner , Janette Turner Hospital , Marion Halligan , Susan Johnson , Christopher Koch , Alex Miller , Shirley Hazzard , Richard Flanagan , Gerald Murnane , Brenda Walker , Rod Jones and Tim Winton . James Clavell in The Asian Saga discusses an important feature of Australian literature: its portrayal of far eastern culture , from
3870-573: The Bush and Paterson the romantic. Lawson is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest writers of short stories, while Paterson's poems remain amongst the most popular Australian bush poems. Significant poets of the 20th century included Dame Mary Gilmore , Kenneth Slessor , A. D. Hope and Judith Wright . Among the best known contemporary poets are Les Murray and Bruce Dawe , whose poems are often studied in Australian high schools. Novelists of classic Australian works include Marcus Clarke ( For
3960-802: The CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for Forest . Tan won this for his career contribution to "children's and young adult literature in the broadest sense". Tan has been awarded various literary awards, including the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2009 for Tales from Outer Suburbia and a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books award in 2007 for The Arrival . Alongside his numerous literary awards, Tan's adaption of his book The Lost Thing also won him an Oscar for best animated short film. Other awards Tan has won include
4050-570: The English buccaneer William Dampier wrote of the "natives of New Holland " as being "barbarous savages", but by the time of Captain James Cook and First Fleet marine Watkin Tench (the era of Jean-Jacques Rousseau ), accounts of Aborigines were more sympathetic and romantic: "these people may truly be said to be in the pure state of nature, and may appear to some to be the most wretched upon
4140-676: The Expedition to Botany Bay et Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson); Roderick J. Flanagan ( The Aborigines of Australia , 1888); The Native Tribes of Central Australia by Spencer and Gillen, 1899; the diaries of Donald Thomson on the subject of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land (c.1935-1943); Alan Moorehead ( The fatal Impact , 1966); Geoffrey Blainey ( Triumph of the Nomads , 1975); Henry Reynolds ( The Other Side of
4230-701: The Frontier , 1981); and Marcia Langton (First Australians, 2008). Differing interpretations of Aboriginal history are also the subject of contemporary debate in Australia, notably between the essayists Robert Manne and Keith Windschuttle . For centuries before the British settlement of Australia, European writers wrote fictional accounts of an imagining of a Great Southern Land . In 1642 Abel Janszoon Tasman landed in Tasmania and after examining notches cut at considerable distances on tree trunks, speculated that
4320-562: The South ). The experience of Australian PoWs in the Pacific War is recounted by Nevil Shute in A Town Like Alice and in the autobiography of Sir Edward Dunlop . Alan Moorehead was an Australian war correspondent and novelist who gained international acclaim. A number of notable classic works by international writers deal with Australian subjects, among them D. H. Lawrence 's Kangaroo . The journals of Charles Darwin contain
4410-429: The Term of His Natural Life ), Miles Franklin ( My Brilliant Career ), Henry Handel Richardson ( The Fortunes of Richard Mahony ), Joseph Furphy ( Such Is Life ), Rolf Boldrewood ( Robbery Under Arms ) and Ruth Park ( The Harp in the South ). In terms of children's literature, Norman Lindsay ( The Magic Pudding ), Mem Fox ( Possum Magic ), and May Gibbs ( Snugglepot and Cuddlepie ) are among
4500-602: The War of 1939–1945 is a 22-volume official history dedicated to Australia's Second World War efforts. the series was published by the Australian War Memorial between 1952 and 1977. The main editor was Gavin Long . A significant milestone was the historian Manning Clark 's six-volume History of Australia , which is regarded by some as the definitive account of the nation. Clark had a talent for narrative prose and
4590-509: The Year Award for picture books. Paul Jennings is a prolific writer of contemporary Australian fiction for young people whose career began with collections of short stories such as Unreal! (1985) and Unbelievable! (1987); many of the stories were adapted as episodes of the award-winning television show Round the Twist . The world's richest prize in children's literature has been received by two Australians, Sonya Hartnett , who won
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#17327825371244680-415: The admittedly even further east, but nevertheless western cultural viewpoint, as Nevil Shute did. Clavell was also a successful screenwriter and along with such writers as Thomas Keneally (see above), has expanded the topics of Australian literature far beyond that one country. Other novelists to use international themes are David Malouf , Beverley Farmer and Rod Jones . The Secret River (2005)
4770-722: The antagonist Banksia men . Gibbs' influence has lasted through the generations – contemporary children's author Ursula Dubosarsky has cited Snugglepot and Cuddlepie as one of her favourite books. In the middle of the twentieth century, children's literature languished, with popular British authors dominating the Australian market. But in the 1960s Oxford University Press published several Australian children's authors, and Angus & Robertson appointed their first specialist children's editor. The best-known writers to emerge in this period were Hesba Brinsmead , Ivan Southall , Colin Thiele , Patricia Wrightson , Nan Chauncy , Joan Phipson and Eleanor Spence , their works primarily set in
4860-459: The award in 2019 for her novel Too Much Lip , which was also short-listed for the Stella Prize for Australian women's writing. Letters written by notable Aboriginal leaders like Bennelong and Sir Douglas Nicholls are also retained as treasures of Australian literature, as is the historic Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 which is the first traditional Aboriginal document recognised by
4950-641: The closure of ABC Sydney's Gore Hill studio, uncovered considerable quantities of film and video footage long thought to have been lost, such as the complete The Aunty Jack Show , the absence of any reference on the TARA or NFSA databases and the paucity of citations elsewhere, e.g. IMDb, suggest that the master recordings of the adaptations of the Norman Lindsay novels may no longer exist. The first broadcasts of these programs predated widespread domestic ownership of videocassette recorders in Australia, so it
5040-523: The creatures of the Australian bush , thus Bunyip Bluegum of The Magic Pudding is a koala who leaves his tree in search of adventure, while in Dot and the Kangaroo a little girl lost in the bush is befriended by a group of marsupials . May Gibbs crafted a story of protagonists modelled on the appearance of young eucalyptus (gum tree) nuts and pitted these gumnut babies , Snugglepot and Cuddlepie, against
5130-474: The critically acclaimed Hitler's Daughter (1999), is a "what if?" story that explores mind-provoking issues about what would have happened if Adolf Hitler had had a daughter. French is also the author of the highly praised Diary of a Wombat (2003), which won awards such as the 2003 COOL Award and 2004 BILBY Award , among others. It was also named an honour book for the CBCA Children's Book of
5220-489: The earth; but in reality they are far happier than ... we Europeans", wrote Cook in his journal on 23 August 1770. Many notable works have been written by non-indigenous Australians on Aboriginal themes. Examples include the poems of Judith Wright ; The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally , Ilbarana by Donald Stuart , and the short story by David Malouf : "The Only Speaker of his Tongue". Histories covering Indigenous themes include Watkin Tench (Narrative of
5310-406: The embedding of Neoliberalism in Australian and global political culture". Kalinda Ashton (born 1978) has been called a post-grunge writer, in part due to influences from grunge lit author Christos Tsiolkas . Ashton is the author of the novel The Danger Game . Samantha Dagg's 2017 thesis on grunge lit and post-grunge lit states that Luke Carman is a post-grunge writer. Carman's first work,
5400-526: The famous naturalist's first impressions of Australia, gained on his tour aboard the Beagle that inspired his writing of On the Origin of Species . The Wayward Tourist: Mark Twain's Adventures in Australia contains the acclaimed American humourist's musings on Australia from his 1895 lecture tour. In 2012, The Age reported that Text Publishing was releasing an Australian classics series in 2012, to address
5490-578: The first Australian to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1973 "for an epic and psychological narrative art which has introduced a new continent into literature". White's first novel , Happy Valley (1939) was inspired by the landscape and his work as a jackaroo on the land at Adaminaby in the Snowy Mountains, but became an international success and won the Australian Literary Society's gold medal. Born to
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#17327825371245580-547: The first Chinese-language novel to be published in Australia (and possibly the West), The Poison of Polygamy (1909–10) by Wong Shee Ping , was published in English for the first time in 2019, in a bilingual parallel edition. History has been an important discipline in the development of Australian writing. Watkin Tench (1758–1833) - a British officer who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788 - later published two books on
5670-565: The first true works of literature produced in Australia were the accounts of the settlement of Sydney by Watkin Tench , a captain of the marines on the First Fleet to arrive in 1788. In 1819, poet, explorer, journalist and politician William Wentworth published the first book written by an Australian: A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and Its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land, With
5760-518: The idea of a national Australian identity as a series of 'beautiful lies', and this is a recurrent theme in his novels. Andrew McGahan 's Praise (1992), Christos Tsiolkas 's Loaded (1995), Justine Ettler 's The River Ophelia (1995) and Brendan Cowell 's How It Feels (2010) introduced a grunge lit , a type of 'gritty realism' take on questions of Australian identity in the 1990s, though an important precursor to such work came some years earlier with Helen Garner 's Monkey Grip (1977), about
5850-453: The important authors of classic Australian works are the poets Henry Lawson , Banjo Paterson , C. J. Dennis and Dorothea Mackellar . Dennis wrote in the Australian vernacular, while Mackellar wrote the iconic patriotic poem My Country . Lawson and Paterson clashed in the famous " Bulletin Debate " over the nature of life in Australia with Lawson considered to have the harder edged view of
5940-521: The late 19th century/early 20th century convey people living in the bush, a landscape that is alive but also threatening and alienating. Kenneth Cook 's Wake in Fright (1961) portrayed the outback as a nightmare with a blazing sun, from which there is no escape. Colin Thiele 's novels reflected the life and times of rural and regional Australians in the 20th century, showing aspects of Australian life unknown to many city dwellers. In Australian literature,
6030-898: The major cities, many of Australia's most distinctive stories and legends originate in the outback , in the drovers and squatters and people of the barren, dusty plains. David Unaipon is known as the first Aboriginal author. Oodgeroo Noonuccal was the first Aboriginal Australian to publish a book of verse. A ground-breaking memoir about the experiences of the Stolen Generations can be found in Sally Morgan 's My Place . Charles Bean , Geoffrey Blainey , Robert Hughes , Manning Clark , Claire Wright , and Marcia Langton are authors of important Australian histories. Writing by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people While his father, James Unaipon (c.1835-1907), contributed to accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by
6120-439: The missionary George Taplin, David Unaipon (1872–1967) provided the first accounts of Aboriginal mythology written by an Aboriginal: Legendary Tales of the Aborigines . For this he is known as the first Aboriginal author. Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) was a famous Aboriginal poet, writer and rights activist credited with publishing the first Aboriginal book of verse: We Are Going (1964). Sally Morgan 's novel My Place
6210-692: The most significant comedian since Charles Chaplin . His own literary works include the Dame Edna biographies My Gorgeous Life (1989) and Handling Edna (2010) and the autobiography My Life As Me: A Memoir (2002). Geoffrey Robertson KC is a leading international human rights lawyer, academic, author and broadcaster whose books include The Justice Game (1998) and Crimes Against Humanity (1999). Leading feminist Germaine Greer, author of The Female Eunuch , has spent much of her career in England but continues to study, critique, condemn and adore her homeland (recent work includes Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way to Nationhood , 2004). Martin Boyd (1893–1972)
6300-553: The national literary landscape, such literary communities have a quite separate existence, with their own poetry festivals, literary competitions, magazine and newspaper reviews and features, and even local publishers. Some writers, like the Greek Australian Dimitris Tsaloumas , have published bilingually. There are now signs that such writing is attracting more academic interest. Some older works in languages other than English have been translated and received critical and historical attention long after their first publication; for example,
6390-471: The newly discovered country must be peopled by giants. Later, the British satirist, Jonathan Swift , set the land of the Houyhnhnms of Gulliver's Travels to the west of Tasmania. In 1797 the British Romantic poet Robert Southey —then a young Jacobin —included a section in his collection, "Poems", a selection of poems under the heading, "Botany Bay Eclogues," in which he portrayed the plight and stories of transported convicts in New South Wales . Among
6480-490: The racist and right-wing political leanings that dominated The Bulletin at that time; the " Red Menace " and " Yellow Peril " were popular themes in his cartoons. These attitudes occasionally spilled over into his other work, and modern editions of The Magic Pudding often omit one couplet in which "you unmitigated Jew" is used as an insult. Lindsay was associated with a number of poets, such as Kenneth Slessor , Francis Webb and Hugh McCrae , influencing them in part through
6570-632: The subject of a 1983 Australian film . Author David Ireland won the Miles Franklin Award three times, including for The Glass Canoe (1976). Peter Carey has also won the Miles Franklin Award three times ( Jack Maggs 1998; Oscar and Lucinda 1989; and Bliss 1981). He has twice won the Booker Prize with 1988's Oscar and Lucinda and 2001's True History of the Kelly Gang . DBC Pierre 's Vernon God Little won
6660-465: The subject of debate and criticism. Linda Jaivin disagreed with putting all these authors in one category, Christios Tsiolkas called the term a "media creation", and Murray Waldren denied grunge lit even was a new genre; he said the works actually are a type of the pre-existing dirty realism genre. Post-grunge lit is a genre of Australian fiction from the late 1990s, 2000s and 2010s. It is called "post-grunge lit" to denote that this genre appeared after
6750-471: The subject of the foundations of New South Wales: Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay and Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson . Written with a spirit of humanity his accounts are considered by writers including Robert Hughes and Thomas Keneally to be essential reading for the early history of Australia/ Charles Bean was the official war historian of the First World War and
6840-430: The term mateship has often been employed to denote an intensely loyal relationship of shared experience, mutual respect and unconditional assistance existing between friends ( mates ) in Australia. This relationship of (often male) loyalty has remained a central subject of Australian literature from colonial times to the present day. In 1847, Alexander Harris wrote of habits of mutual helpfulness between mates arising in
6930-557: The terror " of life in the Australian bush . Australian writers who have obtained international renown include the Nobel-winning author Patrick White , as well as authors Christina Stead , David Malouf , Peter Carey , Bradley Trevor Greive , Thomas Keneally , Colleen McCullough , Nevil Shute and Morris West . Notable contemporary expatriate authors include the feminist Germaine Greer , art historian Robert Hughes and humorists Barry Humphries and Clive James . Among
7020-454: The then South Kensington Museum where he made sketches of model ships in the museum's collection stimulated a lifelong interest in ship models. The Lindsays returned to Australia in 1911. Lindsay wrote the children's classic The Magic Pudding which was published in 1918. Many of his novels have a frankness and vitality that matches his art. In 1930 he created a scandal when his novel Redheap , supposedly based on his hometown, Creswick,
7110-569: The war. Unfortunately, they were discovered when the train they were on caught fire and were impounded and subsequently burned as pornography by American officials. The artist's older brother Lionel remembered Lindsay's reaction: "Don't worry, I'll do more." Lindsay married Catherine (Kate) Agatha Parkinson, in Melbourne on 23 May 1900. Their son Jack was born in Melbourne on 20 October 1900, followed by Raymond in 1903 and Philip in 1906. They divorced in 1918. He later married Rose Soady who
7200-454: The women "fleshy strumpets"; English writer Hesketh Hubbard condemned a Lindsay exhibition in London in 1923 as "salacious"; Australian art critic Alan McCulloch at the time of Lindsay's death, called Lindsay's figures "galumphing"; To gain an instant local response (and perhaps an audience overseas?) he exaggerated grossly the erotic and sensational elements. The people he drew were always in shocking taste whether nude or clothed and his humor
7290-483: The work (published between 1969 and 1987) remains a popular and influential work. Clark's one time student Geoffrey Blainey stands as another to have deeply influenced Australian historiography. His important works include The Tyranny of Distance (1966) and Triumph of the Nomads: A History of Ancient Australia (1975). Robert Hughes ' much-debated history The Fatal Shore: The epic of Australia's founding (1987)
7380-449: Was a distinguished memoirist, novelist and poet, whose works included social comedies and the serious reflections of a pacifist faced with a time of war. Among his Langton series of novels— The Cardboard Crown (1952), A Difficult Young Man (1955), Outbreak of Love (1957)—earned high praise in Britain and the United States, though despite their Australian themes, were largely ignored in Australia. Patrick White (1912–1990) became
7470-466: Was also his business manager, a most recognisable model, and the printer for most of his etchings. They had two daughters: Jane Lindsay, born in 1920, and Helen Lindsay, born in 1921. Philip died in 1958 and Raymond in 1960. In the Lindsay tradition, Jack became a prolific publisher, writer, translator and activist. Philip became a writer of historical novels, and worked for the film industry. Lindsay
7560-548: Was banned due to censorship laws. In 1938, Lindsay published Age of Consent , which described the experience of a middle-aged painter on a trip to a rural area, who meets an adolescent girl who serves as his model, and then lover. The book, published in Britain, was banned in Australia until 1962. Lindsay is widely regarded as one of Australia's greatest artists, producing a vast body of work in different media, including pen drawing , etching , watercolour , oil and sculptures in concrete and bronze . Lindsay's creative output
7650-561: Was considered a breakthrough memoir in terms of bringing indigenous stories to wider notice. Leading Aboriginal activists Marcia Langton ( First Australians , 2008) and Noel Pearson ( Up from the Mission , 2009) are active contemporary contributors to Australian literature. The voices of Indigenous Australians are being increasingly recognised and include the playwright Jack Davis and Kevin Gilbert . Writers coming to prominence in
7740-544: Was founded by Colin Roderick , an Australian "writer, editor, academic and educator". Australian literature Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and
7830-675: Was influential in establishing the importance of ANZAC in Australian history and mythology, with such prose as "Anzac stood, and still stands, for reckless valor in a good cause, for enterprise, resourcefulness, fidelity, comradeship and endurance, that will never own defeat". (see works including The Story of ANZAC: From the Outbreak of War to the End of the First Phase of the Gallipoli Campaign 4 May 1915 , 1921). Australia in
7920-451: Was the 'sick' humor of the Roman forum. Poet A.D. Hope in a book of Lindsay pencil drawings wrote that: These are faithful and loving studies of the model in which the breasts and thighs are as individual and eloquent as the faces, and every part of the body thinks, feels and speaks. In 1940, Lindsay took sixteen crates of paintings, drawings and etchings to the U.S. to protect them from
8010-457: Was the inspiration for the film Schindler's List . Other notable Australian novels converted to celluloid include: Paul Brickhill 's The Great Escape ; Pamela Lyndon Travers ' Mary Poppins ; Morris West 's The Shoes of the Fisherman and Bryce Courtenay 's The Power of One . Careful, He Might Hear You by Sumner Locke Elliott won the Miles Franklin Award in 1963, and was
8100-412: Was vast, his energy enormous. Several eyewitness accounts tell of his working practices in the 1920s. He woke early and produced a watercolour before breakfast. By mid-morning, he would be in his etching studio where he worked until late afternoon. In the afternoon, he worked on a concrete sculpture in the garden. In the evening, he'd write a new chapter for whatever novel he was working on at the time. As
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