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 Awardwinner, 1982Just Relations;1994The Grisly Wife |
Rodney HallAM(born 18 November 1935)[1]is anAustralianwriter.
Biography[edit]
Born inSolihull,Warwickshire,England, Hall came to Australia as a child afterWorld War IIand studied at theUniversity of Queensland(1971).[2]In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by theAustralian Broadcasting Commissionin Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor ofThe Australian.[3]He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published thirteen novels, includingJust RelationsandThe Island in the Mind.He lived inShanghaifor a period in the late 1980s. From 1991 to 1994, he served as chair of theAustralia Council.[4]
Hall lives inVictoria.In addition to a number of literary awards such as twice winning theMiles Franklin Award,he was appointed aMember of Order of Australiafor "service to the Arts, particularly in the field of literature" in 1990.[5]
Hall's memoirPopeye Never Told Youwas launched in May 2010 and was published byPier 9.
He was co-founder of the Australian Summer School of Early Music inCanberra.In June 2014 he stagedJacopo Peri's operaEuridiceat theWoodend Winter Arts Festival.[6]
Awards[edit]
| 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 | Captivity Captive,The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1989 |
| The Age Book of the Year | The Island in the Mind,Fiction Prize shortlisted 1996 |
| Australian Literature Society Gold Medal | 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 | 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[edit]
Novels[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Collections
- Silence(2011)
Poetry[edit]
- 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) withThomas 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth — Manhood — Middle Age | 1965 | Hall, Rodney (March 1965). "Youth — Manhood — Middle Age".Meanjin Quarterly.24(1): 111. |
Non-fiction[edit]
- Focus onAndrew 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[edit]
- ^"Hall, Rodney, 1935–".University of Queensland.Retrieved16 February2024– 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#bioghist1National Library of Australia
- ^Head, Dominic (2006).The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English.Cambridge University Press. p.475.ISBN0-521-83179-2.
- ^"Rodney Hall".honours.pmc.gov.au.Retrieved11 December2019.
- ^"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.Retrieved2 July2019.
Further reading[edit]
- "Open Page with Rodney Hall".Australian Book Review(332): 80. June 2011.
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