Rodney Hall (writer)
Rodney Hall | |
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Born | 18 November 1935 Solihull, Warwickshire, England |
Occupation | Novelist and poet |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 1956- |
Notable works | Just Relations,The Grisly Wife |
Notable awards | Miles Franklin Award winner, 1982 Just Relations; 1994 The Grisly Wife |
Rodney Hall AM (born 18 November 1935)[1] is an Australian writer.
Biography
Born in
Australia Council.[4]
Hall lives in
Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning the Miles Franklin Award, he was appointed a Member of Order of Australia for "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990.[5]
Hall's memoir Popeye Never Told You was launched in May 2010 and was published by Pier 9.
He was co-founder of the Australian Summer School of Early Music in Canberra. In June 2014 he staged Jacopo Peri's opera Euridice at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival.[6]
Awards
The Miles Franklin Award | Just Relations, winner 1982 |
The Grisly Wife, winner 1994 | |
Captivity Captive, shortlisted 1989 | |
The Second Bridegroom, shortlisted 1992 | |
The Day We Had Hitler Home, shortlisted 2001 | |
Love Without Hope, shortlisted 2008 | |
A Stolen Season, shortlisted 2019[7] | |
Victorian Premier's Literary Award
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Captivity Captive, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1989 |
The Age Book of the Year
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The Island in the Mind, Fiction Prize shortlisted 1996 |
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
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The Second Bridegroom, winner 1992 |
The Day We Had Hitler Home, winner 2001 | |
NBC Banjo Awards | Captivity Captive, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1989 |
The Grisly Wife, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1994 | |
The Island in the Mind, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1997 | |
FAW Barbara Ramsden Award
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Just Relations, Book of the Year winner 1982 |
FAW ANA Literature Award | Just Relations, winner 1982 |
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry | A Soapbox Omnibus, winner 1973 |
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | A Stolen Season, shortlisted 2019 |
Bibliography
Novels
- The Ship on the Coin: A Fable of the Bourgeoisie (1972)
- A Place Among People (1975)
- Just Relations (1982)
- Kisses of the Enemy (1987)
- Captivity Captive (1988) - third book in the Yandilli trilogy
- The Second Bridegroom (1991) - first book in the Yandilli trilogy
- The Grisly Wife (1993) - second book in the Yandilli trilogy
- The Island in the Mind (1996)
- The Day We Had Hitler Home (2000)
- The Last Love Story (2004)
- Love Without Hope (2007)
- A Stolen Season (2018)
Short fiction
- Collections
- Silence (2011)
Poetry
- Collections
- The Climber (1962)
- Penniless Till Doomsday (1962)
- Poems' (1963)
- Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope (1963)
- Eyewitness (1967)
- The Autobiography of a Gorgon (1968)
- The Law of Karma (1968)
- Australia (1970)
- Heaven, In a Way (1970)
- A Soapbox Omnibus (1973)
- Selected Poems (1975)
- Black Bagatelles (1978)
- Voyage Into Solitude (1978)
- The Most Beautiful World (1981)
- The Owner of My Face: New and Selected Poems (2002)
- Anthologies (edited)
- New Impulses in Australian Poetry (1968) with Thomas Shapcott
- Australian Poetry 1970 (1970)
- Poems from Prison (1973)
- Australians Aware (1975) (a collection of poems and paintings)
- Voyage into Solitude (1978) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
- The Second Month of Spring (1980) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
- The Collins Book of Australian Poetry (1981)
- Michael Dransfield Collected Poems (1987)
- List of selected poems
Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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Youth — Manhood — Middle Age | 1965 | Hall, Rodney (March 1965). "Youth — Manhood — Middle Age". Meanjin Quarterly. 24 (1): 111. |
Non-fiction
- Focus on Andrew Sibley (1968)
- J. S. Manifold: An Introduction to the Man and His Work (1978)
- Australia - Image of a Nation 1850-1950 (1983) (the text of a photographic collection)
- Home: Journey Through Australia (1988)
- Abolish the States! (1998)
- Memoirs
- Popeye Never Told You (2010)
References
- ^ "Hall, Rodney, 1935–". University of Queensland. Retrieved 16 February 2024 – via Fryer Library Manuscripts.
- ^ Australian Poets and Their Works, by William Wilde. Oxford University Press, 1996
- ^ http://www.nla.gov.au/ms/findaids/4834.html#bioghist1 National Library of Australia
- ISBN 0-521-83179-2.
- ^ "Rodney Hall". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 11 December 2019.
- ^ "No looking back", The Age, 31 May 2014, Spectrum, p. 24
- ^ Boland, Michaela (2 July 2019). "'Try being a Leb': Author from Punchbowl shortlisted for Miles Franklin". ABC News. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
Further reading
- "Open Page with Rodney Hall". Australian Book Review (332): 80. June 2011.