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A PALS - China Exhibition
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The fifth annual Australian Writers Week in China was presented by the Australian Embassy in Beijing from 12-19 March 2012. It was jointly held with the Australia-China Publishing Forum.
The event showcased Australia’s unique literary voice, with a focus on Australian views of the world. Guest authors included noted science writer and academic Tim Flannery; respected literary fiction authors Janette Turner Hospital and Margo Lanagan; non-fiction writer and memoirist Maria Tumarkin; and poet, author and translator Ouyang Yu. They were joined by Walkley Foundation non-fiction book award runner-up Mark McKenna.
This initiative was made possible through a partnership with Copyright Agency Limited and Time Publishing Group, sponsorship from Fortescue Metals Group, and support from the Walkley Foundation, Hilton Hotel, Qantas, Capital Library, The Bookworm Literary Festival, One Way Street Bookshop, and JUE Music + Art 2014.
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Tim Flannery
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Dr Tim Flannery grew up in Melbourne and developed an early interest in the natural world and its history. Flannery studied geology at Monash University and zoology at the University of New South Wales. At the latter institution, he completed his PhD on kangaroos.
Flannery has published widely in scientific and cultural fields, both for academic and popular audiences. In 2006, Flannery won the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year, Gleebooks Prize, and the Book of the Year in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards for The Weather Makers : The History and Future Impact of Climate Change (2005).
In 2019, he published Life: Selected Writings (Text Publishing), a selection of essays, speeches and occasional writing on palaeontology, mammology, environmental science and history.
N.B. Many of Tim Flannery's works are outside of AustLit's scope.
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7179826976052897968.jpg8825175336627921930.jpg8738858035282467527.jpgThe Mystery of the Venus Island Fetish Dido Butterworth , 2014 single work novel
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7757912559428158197.jpgAmong the Islands : Adventures in the Pacific Tim Flannery , 2011 single work autobiography
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Janette Turner Hospital
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Janette Turner Hospital left Melbourne in 1950 when her family moved to Brisbane. Here she was educated at state schools and the University of Queensland, completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1965. She taught for some time in North Queensland, then, after marrying Clifford Hospital, a Methodist minister, she spent two years in Boston, USA. In 1971 they moved to Ontario, Canada, where Hospital completed an MA in medieval literature and taught at schools, penitentiaries, colleges and Queen's University.
In 1978 Hospital published her first short story in the Atlantic Monthly. Four years later she was awarded first prize for magazine fiction from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters, and her first novel, The Ivory Swing, won the prestigious Canadian Seal Award. Since then, her work has attracted a number of Canadian and Australian prizes. In 1999, she was invited to the University of South Carolina to take up a Chair as Carolina Distinguished Professor of English. Hospital was awarded an honorary doctorate from The University of Queensland in 2003.
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7375464151518165239.jpg6725937167239156463.jpgThe Claimant Janette Turner Hospital , 2014 single work novel
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8915071674118645649.jpg3197805962952815040.jpg4777059398852431015.jpg2943359961563910072.jpg7069402042792771908.jpg2745319306013451385.jpgDue Preparations for the Plague Janette Turner Hospital , 2003 single work novel
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Margo Lanagan
Short Story Writer and Novelist-
Margo Lanagan grew up in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, and in Melbourne, Victoria. She holds a degree in history from the University of Sydney and has worked in a variety of occupations including selling encyclopaedias, writing corporate reports and working in a roadhouse on the Nullarbor Plain. Lanagan has also travelled widely and during the late 1980s lived in Paris while on a writing grant.
Since her return to Australia in 1988 Lanagan has worked as a writer and freelance book editor. She has an established popular appeal and a number of her works have been translated into different languages. Lanagan writes speculative fiction and fiction for children and young adults.
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Maria Tumarkin
Biographer-
Maria Tumarkin came to Australia with her family from the former Soviet Union in 1989. She is a writer, broadcaster and historian, and holds a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne.
Her first book, Traumascapes, was shortlisted in the 'First Book of History' category for the 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. She held a post-doctoral fellowship at Swinbune University of Technology, Melbourne, and in 2018 was teaching creative writing at the University of Melbourne.
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463597395137787672.jpg4345961343143648210.jpg9099257537620774463.jpg5019855172197484690.jpgAxiomatic Maria Tumarkin , 2018 single work prose
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118506944455887323.jpgCourage : Guts, Grit, Spine, Heart, Balls, Verve Maria Tumarkin , 2007 single work autobiography
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Ouyang Yu
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Yu Ouyang ( 欧阳昱 ) graduated from Wuhan Institute of Hydro-Electric Engineering with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and American Literature, then completed a Master of Arts degree in Australian and English literature at East China Normal University in Shanghai. From 1983 to 1986 he worked as an interpreter and translator in China and as a lecturer in English at Wuhan University from 1989 to 1991. After coming to Australia, Ouyang undertook his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree at La Trobe University on the representation of the Chinese in Australian fiction.
Since then his literary work has appeared regularly in most major Australian and many overseas literary journals. Ouyang’s poetry has been included in the Best Australian poetry collections 7 times between 2004 and 2011. In addition to his poetry, criticism and English translations of Chinese literature, he has translated many major Australian works into Chinese, including The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes and The Female Eunuch and The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer. Ouyang's work has received numerous awards and prizes.
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Mark McKenna
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Mark McKenna has held several distinguished positions overseas at the Australian Studies Centre in London, the Australian Studies Centre in Copenhagen, and University College, Dublin. In Australia, he was an ARC QEII Fellow in History at The Australian National University from 2000–05. McKenna was Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History at The University of Sydney from 2006, before taking on the role of Associate Professor in 2007. His research focused on the history of Australian republicanism and monarchy, Australian historiography and biography, place and Aboriginal history.
McKenna's book An Eye for Eternity: The Life of Manning Clark won numerous prizes and awards, including the 2012 Prime Minister’s Prize for Non Fiction, the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction (2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Award), the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction (2011 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards), the 2011 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards Prize for Non-Fiction, and the 2012 Adelaide Festival Award for Non-Fiction. In 2017, his From the Edge: Australia's Lost Histories won the NSW Premier's Australian History Prize.
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5425138368191435523.jpg2126952458279648874.jpgAn Eye for Eternity : The Life of Manning Clark Mark McKenna , 2011 single work biography
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2769005498016393869.jpgLooking for Blackfellas' Point : An Australian History of Place Mark McKenna , 2002 single work non-fiction
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