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Paul Kelly Paul Kelly i(A3013 works by)
Born: Established: 1955 Norwood, Norwood, Payneham & St Peters area, Adelaide - North / North East, Adelaide, South Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Paul Kelly is an Australian singer and songwriter. He has published collections of his lyrics and individual poems; collaborated with John Romeril, Kev Carmody, and Mairead Hannan on stage play (and later television adaptation) One Night the Moon, and published his autobiography in 2010.

In 2011, he received The Ted Albert Award for Outstanding Services to Australian Music and he was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2017, for distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of national identity.

Kelly is a cousin of siblings Fiona McGregor and Richard McGregor and the uncle of musician Dan Kelly.

Australian Writing and Rock Music affiliation: lyricist, songwriter, vocals, guitar, miscellaneous instruments (harmonica), producer.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2017 recipient Order of Australia — Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) For distinguished service to the performing arts and to the promotion of the national identity through contributions as a singer, songwriter and musician.
2016 winner Dublin Theatre Festival — Best International Production Award

with Camille O’Sullivan 

Ancient Rain
2015 winner Helpmann Awards for Performing Arts in Australia — J. C. Williamson Award
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon How to Make Gravy Camberwell : Penguin , 2010 Z1726360 2010 single work autobiography 'This extraordinary book has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Paul Kelly performed, in alphabetical order, one hundred of his songs from the previous three decades. In between songs he told stories about them, and from those little tales grew How to Make Gravy, a memoir like no other. Each of its hundred chapters, also in alphabetical order by song title, consists of lyrics followed by a story, the nature of the latter taking its cue from the former. Some pieces are confessional, some tell Kelly's personal and family history, some take you on a road tour with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, some are like small essays, some stand as a kind of how-to of the songwriter's art – from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking.' Source: www.penguin.com.au/ (Sighted 20/09/2010).
2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
2012 finalist Melbourne Prize — Best Writing Award
2012 shortlisted National Biography Award
2011 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards — BookPeople Book of the Year
2011 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year
2011 joint winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Biography of the Year Joint winner with Anh Do's 'The Happiest Refugee'.
2011 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Non-Fiction
2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Nonfiction
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See Also
Paul Kelly and the Boon Companions
Kev Carmody
Influence on:
Minds Went Walking : Paul Kelly’s Songs Reimagined 2022 anthology prose
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