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Anna Donald Anna Donald i(A87072 works by)
Born: Established: 1945 Subiaco, Inner Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

A former teacher, Anna Donald has published poetry and biographical oral histories. In 2005, she was completing a Masters Degree (Creative Writing) at the University of Western Australia and also writing a novel (for adults), set in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, while supplementing her income by running creative writing courses for adults and young people.

In 2010, she was enrolled as a PhD student at the University of Western Australia. Her thesis, titled 'Landscape, Identity, and "Belonging": The Tasmanian Landscape in Literature', will contribute to scholarship by tracing aspects of the depiction of landscape in selected key works set in Tasmania: Marcus Clarke's For The Term of his Natural Life (1870-1872), Robert Drewe's, The Savage Crows (1978), James McQueen's Hook's Mountain (1982) and Richard Flanagan's Death of a River Guide (1994).

Dr Donald's PhD was awarded in 2013.

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y separately published work icon Hard Time Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1998 Z397129 1998 selected work novel young adult

'Teens! Everything's black or white. No greys. Everyone believes they are invincible -- or useless. Who hasn't thought, 'that won't happen to me'? Well it happens to Debbie, Rocket, Kylie, and Steven -- a stolen car, a high-speed chase, a crash. There lives are put on hold ...except Stephen. He has no life.This novel doesn't flinch from portraying the reality and harshness of juvenile detention centers; the hope and despair, the fairness and inequity. It also addresses many fundamental issues: the nature of offense, peer pressure, death, loyalty and friendship, self-image, hopelessness and suicide. A compelling read with a shocking climax.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1999 notable CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
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