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Vale Bryce Courtenay
'For me this country has meant everything. 'Everything!’ So said the late Bryce Courtenay following his appointment as Canberra’s Australia Day Ambassador earlier this year (Canberra Times, 26 January 2012). The South African-born Courtenay ... |
27/11/2012 10:21:54 AM |
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Children’s Literature Community Farewells Gifted Creators
The children’s literature community in Australia has farewelled two members in recent weeks. Jean Chapman ([1928]-2012) had a literary career extending across four decades. She wrote scripts for ABC radio broadcasts (including Kindergarten of the ... |
13/07/2012 9:14:13 AM |
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Vale Rosemary Dobson and Peter Steele
AustLit is deeply saddened by the deaths on 27 June of two eminent Australian poets – Rosemary Dobson (1920-2012) and Peter Steele (1939-2012). A requiem mass and funeral for the Reverend Emeritus Professor Peter Steele will be held in the chapel of ... |
02/07/2012 12:16:17 PM |
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Charlwood’s ‘Green Years’ End
Don Charlwood, author of the classic novel All the Green Year, has died in Melbourne, aged 96. Charlwood’s early years were spent in Frankston, on the outskirts of Melbourne, and this area became the setting known as ‘Kananook&rsqu... |
26/06/2012 10:06:19 AM |
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Remembering Bruce Bennett
Friends and colleagues of the late Professor Bruce Bennett are invited to share their thoughts and memories via the comments function on AustLit’s News Blog. We begin with the following words from US scholar Nicholas Birns: 'With the passing of ... |
17/04/2012 12:46:21 PM |
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Champion of Australian Literature Dies in Canberra
Emeritus Professor Bruce Bennett, AO, has died at his home in Canberra. A Rhodes Scholar, Professor Bennett was a graduate of the Universities of Western Australia, Oxford and London. He taught at the University of Western Australia from 1968 to 1992 and ... |
16/04/2012 12:41:16 PM |
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Dickens Celebrations
Tuesday, 7 February 2012, marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens. World-wide celebrations include a British Council-sponsored read-a-thon that begins in Australia with a reading from Dombey and Son. (Follow the reading on Twitter via ... |
07/02/2012 10:45:00 AM |
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Death of NT Writer
Writer Andrew McMillan has died at his home in Darwin. Born in Brisbane, the journalist, poet and musician settled in the Northern Territory after covering the 1988 Midnight Oil / Warumpi Band tour. In a statement released following his death, McMillan ... |
02/02/2012 9:16:26 AM |
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Farewell Boitran Huynh-Beattie
The AustLit community is saddened to learn of the sudden passing of Boitran Huynh-Beattie. Boitran has been a researcher and indexer with the Australian Multicultural Writers section of AustLit at the University of Wollongong for the past three years. She ... |
19/01/2012 12:08:00 PM |
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Farewell Sarah Watt - Acclaimed Filmmaker and Director
Filmmaker, director, and animator Sarah Watt has died at her Melbourne home from secondary bone cancer. Watt won great acclaim for her 2005 film Look Both Ways; her 2009 movie My Year Without Sex was also well received. Watt had very recently published ... |
08/11/2011 11:45:37 AM |
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Dr Aunty Ruby Langford Ginibi : January 1934-October 2011
Dr Aunty Ruby Ginibi was born on Invasion Day, 26 January 1934, and, sadly, passed away on 1 October 2011. Aunty Ruby was given the title Ginibi, meaning 'black swan', by her Bundjalung Elders, and she was one of Australia’s foremost Aboriginal ... |
11/10/2011 3:50:00 PM |
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Vale Di Gribble
Australian publisher Diana Gribble has died from cancer at the age of sixty-nine. Gribble, together with Hilary McPhee, established the publishing house McPhee Gribble in 1975. With Eric Beecher, she set up the Text Media Group in 1990. (The group's ... |
06/10/2011 2:12:35 PM |
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Death of Ruby Langford Ginibi
Respected Bundjalung woman and writer Ruby Langford Ginibi has died in Sydney at the age of seventy-seven. 'Aunty Ruby' Ginibi came to public notice in 1988 through her autobiography Don't Take Your Love to Town. The book, published during Australia's ... |
04/10/2011 3:56:15 PM |
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Vale Sara Douglass
Twitter and Facebook are awash with tributes for pioneering, award-winning, speculative fiction author Sara Douglass, who passed away this morning from cancer. |
27/09/2011 11:00:00 AM |
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Hazel Rowley's Literary Legacy
Friends and family of biographer Hazel Rowley have established funds to commemorate Rowley’s life and her writing legacy. In Australia, the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund will support an annual lecture and a literary fellowship. In the USA, a plaque ... |
26/09/2011 11:38:51 AM |
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Death of Janice Bostok - A Gifted Haiku Writer
Australia's haiku community has farewelled award-winning poet, mentor and teacher Janice Bostok. Bostok was one of the forerunners in bringing the Japanese poetry form haiku into the Australian consciousness. She founded the haiku journal Tweed in 1972 ... |
20/09/2011 12:30:42 PM |
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Distinguished Art Historian Dies
Bernard Smith, considered the father of Australian art history, has died in Melbourne, aged 94. Smith was Professor of Contemporary Art at the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney from 1967 to 1977. He was a foundation member, and former ... |
12/09/2011 2:20:53 PM |
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Death of Louise Schofield
This year's Mundaring heARTlines Festival will honour the life of Louise Schofield following her death from breast cancer. Schofield won the 2004 West Australian Young Readers' Book Award for her children's book Secrets in the Tingle Forest and was ... |
11/08/2011 11:56:40 AM |
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A Kerry Leves Memorial
Following the death in May of poet and reviewer Kerry Leves, the Melbourne-based journal Overland has created an online memorial page where Leves's friends can write their ' fondest personal memories and recollections'. The page also includes an obituary ... |
19/07/2011 5:36:00 PM |