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5 days ago · When Kate Grenville’s mother died she left behind many fragments of memoir. These were the starting point for One Life, the story of a woman whose life spanned a century of tumult and change.
5 days ago · Book Review: Lighting Dark Places: Essays on Kate Grenville, edited by Sue Kossew. Cross Cultures: Readings in Post/Colonial Literatures and Cultures in English. Vol. 131. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2010.
Text Publishing is an independent, Melbourne-based publisher of literary fiction and non-fiction. Text won the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Small Publisher of the Year in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
4 days ago · The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". [1] The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. [2]
2 days ago · Other Australian writers arguably produced career-best work celebrated around the world (from Richard Flanagan’s Baillie Gifford Prize shortlisted Question 7 to Anna Funder and Kate Grenville on Women’s Prize shortlists, and Charlotte Wood’s Booker contention).
6 days ago · In Kate Grenville’s colonial-era novel ‘The Secret River’ the actions of the settlers, led by Smasher, portray human nature at its most primitive level. In order to resolve the conflict over land, the men resort to massacring the innocent Indigenous community.
Sep 21, 2024 · Generally, the view regarding the origins of the Church of the Purification of the Virgin Mary at Smokvica is that there were other churches nearby for hundreds of years, but not on the same site. This is the official account of the building: "The parish church in Smokvica, the Church of the Purification of Mary (Apparition of the Lord in the ...
3 days ago · An estimated 30,000 young and young-at-heart writers and artists have since stayed, including then unknowns such as Alan Sillitoe, Kate Grenville, Sebastian Barry, and Ethan Hawke. “That’s an iconic bookshop I’d love to visit – and expand my bookshop travels to beyond the British Isles,” Shepherd continues.
1 day ago · Daniel Deronda (1876) came four years after Middlemarch and was George Eliot’s last novel.She died in 1880, aged 61. I hadn’t read it for many years and was fascinated to get back to this engaging study of what it means to be Jewish, as topical now as it was 148 years ago.
19 hours ago · Catherine Élise Blanchett AC (/ ˈblæntʃɪt / BLAN-chit; [ 2 ] born 14 May 1969) is an Australian actor [ a ] and film producer. Regarded as one of the best performers of her generation, she is recognized for her versatile work across independent films, blockbusters, and the stage.
