Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for Non-Fiction 2010
March 5th 2010 22:39
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Jill Roe wins Adelaide Festival Literary Award 2010
HarperCollinsPublishers is delighted to congratulate author, Jill Roe - winner of the biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for Non-Fiction 2010 for her outstanding biography - Stella Miles Franklin (Fourth Estate 2008).
This Award further reinforces the significance of this major biography, which won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for History last year.
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and, at the age of twenty-one, became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career, now an Australian classic. Miles' early success gave her entry in to literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne.
In 1906 she made the bold move to travel overseas, and went to work for the women's labour movement in Chicago. A prolific author of plays as well as novels and archetypal bush stories, she often submitted work under pseudonyms which she guarded fiercely all her life.
In the 1930s she returned to Australia and determined to take up the cause of Australian writers. Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Miles Franklin's was a life of enormous range. And her endowment of the Miles Franklin literary award founded an Australian literary institution which remains our most prestigious literary award.
Jill Roe, AO, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has written numerous papers on Miles Franklin's life and work. Her edited selection of Miles Franklin's letters, My Congenials, appeared in 1993, and A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin (with Margaret Bettison) in 2001.
HarperCollinsPublishers is delighted to congratulate author, Jill Roe - winner of the biennial Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature for Non-Fiction 2010 for her outstanding biography - Stella Miles Franklin (Fourth Estate 2008).
This Award further reinforces the significance of this major biography, which won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for History last year.
Stella Miles Franklin was born in the Australian bush and, at the age of twenty-one, became an international publishing sensation with My Brilliant Career, now an Australian classic. Miles' early success gave her entry in to literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne.
In 1906 she made the bold move to travel overseas, and went to work for the women's labour movement in Chicago. A prolific author of plays as well as novels and archetypal bush stories, she often submitted work under pseudonyms which she guarded fiercely all her life.
In the 1930s she returned to Australia and determined to take up the cause of Australian writers. Novelist, journalist, nationalist, feminist and larrikin Miles Franklin's was a life of enormous range. And her endowment of the Miles Franklin literary award founded an Australian literary institution which remains our most prestigious literary award.
Jill Roe, AO, is Professor Emerita in the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University, Sydney. She has written numerous papers on Miles Franklin's life and work. Her edited selection of Miles Franklin's letters, My Congenials, appeared in 1993, and A Gregarious Culture: Topical Writings of Miles Franklin (with Margaret Bettison) in 2001.
'Roe's mighty biography ... is 'Roe has sleuthed out so much ... that we are immersed in a rediscovery not just of Franklin's life but Franklin's world' Weekend Australian
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