Rodney Hall

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Rodney Hall OAM (born 18 November 1935) is an Australian writer.

Born in Birmingham, England, Hall came to Australia as a child and studied at the University of Queensland. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published ten novels, including Just Relations and The Island in the Mind. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1990-1993, he served as chair of the Australia Council.[1]

Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards, he has received an Order of Australia Medal.

Rodney's most recent novel Love without Hope was launched in early February 2007 and was published by Picador.

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[edit] 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
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
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

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • The Ship on the Coin (1972)
  • A Place Among People (1975)
  • Just Relations (1982)
  • Kisses of the Enemy (1987)
  • Captivity Captive (1988)
  • The Second Bridegroom (1991)
  • The Grisly Wife (1993)
  • The Island in the Mind (1996)
  • The Day We Had Hitler Home (2000)
  • The Last Love Story (2004)
  • Love Without Hope (2007)

[edit] Poetry

  • The Climber (1962)
  • Penniless Till Doomsday (1962)
  • 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)
  • The Most Beautiful World (1981)

[edit] Government/Politics

  • Abolish the States! (1998)

[edit] 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)

[edit] Edited

  • New Impulses in Australian Poetry (1968) with Thomas Shapcott
  • Australian Poetry 1970 (1970)
  • Poems from Prison (1973)
  • Australians Beware (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)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Head, Dominic (2006). The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English. Cambridge University Press, 475. ISBN 0521831792. 


Persondata
NAME Hall, Rodney
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION English born Australian novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 18 November 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, England
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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