Thea Astley
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Thea Astley (25 August 1925 - 17 August 2004) was an Australian novelist.
Born in Brisbane, Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland before becoming a teacher. After marrying, she moved to Sydney. In later life she tutored at Macquarie University.
She died in Byron Bay in 2004.
Her novels won four Miles Franklin Awards and in 1989 she won the Patrick White Award for services to Australian literature. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Queensland in 1989.
[edit] Bibliography
- Girl with a Monkey (1958)
- A Descant for Gossips (1960)
- The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) (Franklin Award)
- The Slow Natives (1965) (Franklin Award)
- A Boat Load of Home Folk (1968)
- The Acolyte (1972) (Franklin Award)
- A Kindness Cup (1974)
- Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979), a collection of short stories
- An Item from the Late News (1982)
- Beachmasters (1985)
- It's Raining in Mango (1987), a collection of short stories
- Reaching Tin River (1990)
- Vanishing Points (1992)
- Coda (1994)
- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996)
- Collected Stories (1997), a collection of short stories
- Drylands (1999) (Franklin Award)
