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PatrickWhit
• published 12 novels, three short-story

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collections, and eight plays, from 1935 to
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• White's fiction employs humour, florid

prose, shifting narrative vantage points. In
1973 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Literature.
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NOBEL PEACE
PRIZES AWARDED ANNUALLY FOR
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OUTSTANDING WORK IN PHYSICS,
CHEMISTRY, PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE,
LITERATURE, ECONOMICS, AND
THE PROMOTION OF PEACE.
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PatrickWhit
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PatrickWhit
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• His fifth published novel
• It is based upon the life of the nineteenth-
century Prussian explorer and naturalist
Ludwig Leichhardt, who disappeared whilst
on an expedition into the Australian outback.
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PatrickWhit
THE TREE OF MAN
e • His fourth published novel
• It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of
the Parker family and their changing fortunes
over many decades.
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PatrickWhit
THE EYE OF THE STORM
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• His ninth published novel
• It tells the story of Elizabeth Hunter, the
powerful matriarch of her family, who still
maintains a destructive iron grip on those who
come to say farewell to her in her final
moments upon her deathbed.
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HelenGAR
• novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and

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journalist. Garner's
• She has a reputation for incorporating and
adapting her personal experiences in her
fiction, something that has brought her
widespread attention, particularly with her
novels
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THIS HOUSE OF GRIEF

NER • a 2014 non-fiction work
• Subtitled "The story of a murder trial", its
subject matter is the murder conviction of a
man accused of driving his car into a dam
resulting in the deaths of his three children
in rural Victoria, Australia and the ensuing
trials.
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THE SPARE ROOM

NER • a 2008 novel set over the course of three
weeks while the narrator, Helen, cares for a
friend dying of bowel cancer.
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THE FIRST STONE

NER • a controversial non-fiction book that
questions sex and power
• about a 1992 sexual harassment scandal at
Ormond College, one of the residential
colleges of the University of Melbourne,
which the author had attended in the
1960s.
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MilesFRAN
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• She was committed to the development of a
uniquely Australian form of literature, and
she actively pursued this goal by supporting
writers, literary journals, and writers'
organisations.
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MilesFRAN
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MilesFRAN
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MY BRILLIANT CAREER
• 1901, her first novel
• It was written while she was still a
teenager, as a romance to amuse her
friends. Franklin submitted the manuscript
to Henry Lawson who contributed a
preface and took it to his own publishers in
Edinburgh.
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MilesFRAN
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BRING THE MONKEY
• a crime and mystery novel
• This is a mystery novel involving a murder
and the theft of jewels from an English
country mansion, Tattingwood Hall.
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MilesFRAN
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OLD BLASTUS OF BANDICOOT
• The novel concerns an old pioneer squatter
in the Murrumbidgee country near
Canberra. The Barry and Lindsey families
hold adjoining properties and are in dispute
over a matrimonial disagreement. In this
case one of the Lindseys has jilted the
eldest daughter of Old Blastus.
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DavidMalouf
• He was awarded the Neustadt International
Prize for Literature in 2000, his 1993 novel
• He was an avid reader as a child, and at 12
years old was reading such books as The
Hunchback of Notre-Dame. These books, he
says, taught him about sex
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DavidMalouf
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DavidMalouf
AN IMAGINARY LIFE
• a 1978 novella
• It tells the story of the Roman poet Ovid,
during his exile in Tomis.
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DavidMalouf
FLY AWAY PETER
• a 1982 novel that won The Age Book of
the Year award in 1982, and is often
studied at senior level in Australian high
schools.
• Fly Away Peter is an Australian novel set before
and during the First World War. The first part of
the novel is set on the Queensland Gold Coast,
and the second part on the Western Front.
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DavidMalouf
REMEMBERING BABYLON
• written in 1993. It won the inaugural
International Dublin Literary Award
• The novel covers themes of isolation,
language, relationships (particularly those
between men), community and living on
the edge (of society, consciousness,
culture).
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DID YOU
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performing arts centre at Sydney Harbour in

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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of
the 20th century's most famous and distinctive
buildings
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ThomasKENE
ALLY
• novelist, playwright, and essayist. He is best
known for his non-fiction novel Schindler's
Ark
• The story of Oskar Schindler 's rescue of
Jews during the Holocaust, which won the
Booker Prize in 1982.
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ThomasKENE
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THE PLACE AT WHITTON
• His first novel
• Itis set in a large seminary where, in eight weeks'
time, 200 young men are to be ordained as
Catholic priests. Then preparations are interrupted
by the murders of one of the lay labourers and the
scholarly rector.
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ThomasKENE
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THE FEAR
• The novel is also known by the title
By the Line
• It follows the story of Danny Jordan, a boy who has been
moved from the Macleay Valley – in the Mid North Coast
area of New South Wales – to Sydney during the Second
World War due to the threat of a Japanese invasion. Danny
and his family end up living next door to a violent Communist
who takes a disliking to the boy.
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ThomasKENE
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BRING LARKS AND HEROES
• a 1967 novel which won the Miles Franklin
Award in 1967
• The novel is set in an unidentified Penal colony
in the South Pacific , which bears a superficial
resemblance to Sydney.
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ChristosTSIOL
KAS
• Tsiolkas was born and raised in Melbourne
with his Greek immigrant parents, and was
educated at Blackburn High School. Tsiolkas
completed his Arts Degree at the University
of Melbourne in 1987.
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ChristosTSIOL
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ChristosTSIOL
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DAMASCUS
• 'We are despised, yet we grow. We are tortured
and crucified and yet we flourish. We are hated
and still we multiply. Why is that? You must
wonder, how is it we survive?'
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ChristosTSIOL
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BARRACUDA
• Fourteen-year-old Daniel Kelly is special.
Despite his upbringing in working-class
Melbourne, he knows that his astonishing ability
in the swimming pool has the potential to
transform his life.
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ChristosTSIOLK
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MERCILESS GODS
• A collection of urgent, thrilling and original
stories from the award-winning, bestselling
author of The Slap and Barracuda. Love, sex,
death, family, friendship, betrayal, tenderness,
sacrifice and revelation.
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ChristinaSTEA
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• Novelist and short story writer known for
her political insights and firmly controlled
high individual style
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THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN
• The novel tells the story of a highly
dysfunctional family, the Pollits. The naive
egoism of the eponymous Sam Pollit
overwhelms his family, especially his wife
Henny and eldest daughter Louie.
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ChristinaSTEA
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SEVEN POOR MEN OF SYDNEY
• The novel follows the fortunes of seven men
living around Watson's Bay in Sydney. The men
are brought together by their radical or rationalist
beliefs or by their relationship and dealings to a
printing press.
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ChristinaSTEA
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THE SALZBURG TALES
• The author's first book, referred to as "a
Chauceresque novel," a "septameron of
interlocking narratives set (in the 1930's) against
the backdrop of the famous Salzburg music
festival."
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KimSCOTT
• Novelist of Indigenous Australian ancestry.
• Has published five novels and the first
Indigenous writer to receive the Miles
Franklin Award, the highest literary merit in
Australia
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KimSCOTT
TABOO:
• Taboo takes place in the present day, in the rural
South-West of Western Australia, and tells the
story of a group of Noongar people who revisit,
for the first time in many decades, a taboo place:
the site of a massacre that followed the
assassination, by these Noongar's descendants, of
a white man who had stolen a black woman.
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KimSCOTT
THAT DEADMAN DANCE
• That Deadman Dance is set in the first decades
of the 19th century in and around what is now
Albany, Western Australia, an area known by
some historians as 'the friendly frontier'. The
book explores the early contact between the
Aboriginal Noongar people, European settlers
and American whalers.
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KimSCOTT
RADICAL CONDOR
• Radical Candor is the sweet spot between
managers who are obnoxiously aggressive on the
one side and ruinously empathetic on the other.
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RuthPARK
• New Zealand-born Austalian author
• Created a scandal in Australia with her first
novel, The Harp in the South
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THE HARP IN THE SOUTH
• The Harp in the South is the debut novel by
Australian author Ruth Park. Published in 1948,
it portrays the life of a Catholic Irish Australian
family living in the Sydney suburb of Surry
Hills, which was at that time an inner city slum.
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RuthPARK
PLAYING BEATIE BOW
• Playing Beatie Bow is an Australian children's book
written by Ruth Park and first published on 31 January
1980. It features a time slip in Sydney, Australia.
• The story concerns a 14-year-old girl named Abigail
Kirk (formerly Lynette). While distraught over her
parents' separation, she travels back in time as the
result of a scary playground game.
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RuthPARK
POOR MAN’S ORANGE
• Poor Man's Orange is a novel by New Zealand
born Australian author Ruth Park. Published in
1949, the book is the sequel to The Harp in the
South and continues the story of the Darcy
family, living in the Surry Hills area of Sydney.
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TimWINTO
• writer of novels, children's books, non-

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fiction books, and short stories. In 1997 he
was named a Living Treasure by the
National Trust, and has won the Miles
Franklin Award four times.
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TimWINTON
CLOUDSTREET
• It chronicles the lives of two working-class
families, the Pickles and the Lambs, who come
to live together in a large house called
Cloudstreet in Perth over a period of twenty
years, 1943 – 1963. It was the recipient of a
Miles Franklin Award in 1992.
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TimWINTON
BREATH
• His twentieth book and the eighth novel by seven
years, it was published in 2008, in Australia,
New Zealand, the UK, the US, Canada, the
Netherlands and Germany.
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TimWINTON
DIRT MUSIC
• It has been translated into Russian, French and
German.
• The harsh, unyielding climate of Western
Australia dominates the actions and events of
this thriller.
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