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'''Morris Lurie''' (30 October 1938{{spaced ndash}}8 October 2014) was an [[Australia]]n writer of [[comic novel]]s, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.
'''Moses "Morris" Lurie''' (30 October 1938{{spaced ndash}}8 October 2014) was an Australian writer of [[comic novel]]s, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Lurie was born in 1938 to Arie and Esther Lurie (Jewish emigrants from Poland) at the [[Royal Women's Hospital]] in [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]], a suburb of [[Melbourne]].<ref name="penguin">"[http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/authors/author-profile.cfm?Authorid=0000001135&Author=Morris%20Lurie Morris Lurie profile]", Penguin Books, retrieved 2010-01-21</ref> He was schooled at Elwood Central School, Prahran Technical School and Melbourne High School, and then studied architecture at the [[RMIT University|Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology]] before working in advertising.
Lurie was born '''Moses Lurie'''<ref name=tigg>John Van Tiggelen, "The bitter pen", ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 6 November 1999, Good Weekend, p. 55</ref> in 1938 to Arie and Esther Lurie (Jewish emigrants from Poland) at the [[Royal Women's Hospital]] in [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]], a suburb of [[Melbourne]].<ref name="penguin">"[http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/authors/author-profile.cfm?Authorid=0000001135&Author=Morris%20Lurie Morris Lurie profile] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091028040212/http://www.penguin.com.au/puffin/authors/author-profile.cfm?Authorid=0000001135&Author=Morris%20Lurie |date=28 October 2009 }}", Penguin Books, retrieved 2010-01-21</ref> He was named after an uncle who had died in Poland.<ref name=tigg/> He was schooled at Elwood Central School, Prahran Technical School and Melbourne High School, and then studied architecture at the [[RMIT University|Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology]] before working in advertising.


His first novel was the comic ''Rappaport'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) and focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander. The characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled in ''Rappaport's Revenge'' (1973). Lurie's self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction. His second novel was ''The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968). ''Flying Home'' (1978) was named by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of the decade. Subsequent novels are ''Seven Books for Grossman'' (1983)—really a novella parodying the styles of various authors—and ''Madness'' (1991), about a writer dealing with a mentally unstable girlfriend.
His first novel was the comic ''Rappaport'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) and focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander. The characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled in ''Rappaport's Revenge'' (1973). Lurie's self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction. His second novel was ''The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968). ''Flying Home'' (1978) was named by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of the decade. Subsequent novels are ''Seven Books for Grossman'' (1983)—really a novella parodying the styles of various authors—and ''Madness'' (1991), about a writer dealing with a mentally unstable girlfriend.
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Lurie is best known for his short stories. In 2000 he wrote an instructional guide ''When and How to Write Short Stories and What They Are''. His stories have been published in many prestigious magazines, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review|The Virginia Quarterly]]'', ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''The [[Telegraph Magazine]]'', ''[[Transatlantic Review (1959)|Transatlantic Review]]'', ''[[Island magazine|Island]]'', ''[[Meanjin]]'', ''[[Overland (literary journal)|Overland]]'', ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' and ''[[Westerly (Australian literary magazine)|Westerly]]''.
Lurie is best known for his short stories. In 2000 he wrote an instructional guide ''When and How to Write Short Stories and What They Are''. His stories have been published in many prestigious magazines, including ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[Virginia Quarterly Review|The Virginia Quarterly]]'', ''[[Punch (magazine)|Punch]]'', ''[[The Times]]'', ''The [[Telegraph Magazine]]'', ''[[Transatlantic Review (1959)|Transatlantic Review]]'', ''[[Island magazine|Island]]'', ''[[Meanjin]]'', ''[[Overland (literary journal)|Overland]]'', ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' and ''[[Westerly (Australian literary magazine)|Westerly]]''.


In his 2008 novel, ''To Light Attained'', Lurie deals with the subject of suicide.<ref>{{cite web | last = Davidson | first = Liam | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = A searing account of heartbreaking loss | work =| publisher = The Australian – Book Reviews | date = 25 October 2009 | url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/morris-lurie-to-light-attained/story-e6frg8no-1111117814435 | format = | doi = | accessdate = }}</ref> A review of the novel described it as "a father's anguish in words".<ref>{{cite web | last = Koval | first = Ramona | title = Morris Lurie's To Light Attained | work = | publisher = Radio National – The Book Show | date = 20 October 2008 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/morris-luries-to-light-attained/3191430 | format = | doi = | accessdate = 7 March 2012}}</ref>
In his 2008 novel, ''To Light Attained'', Lurie deals with the subject of suicide.<ref>{{cite web | last = Davidson | first = Liam | title = A searing account of heartbreaking loss | publisher = The Australian – Book Reviews | date = 25 October 2009 | url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/morris-lurie-to-light-attained/story-e6frg8no-1111117814435 }}</ref> His daughter Rachel had died by suicide in 1993, aged 23.<ref name=tigg/>A review of the novel described it as "a father's anguish in words".<ref>{{cite web | last = Koval | first = Ramona | title = Morris Lurie's To Light Attained | publisher = Radio National – The Book Show | date = 20 October 2008 | url = http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/bookshow/morris-luries-to-light-attained/3191430 | accessdate = 7 March 2012}}</ref>


Lurie succumbed to cancer on 8 October 2014, at the [[Wantirna]] Hospice.<ref>Jason Steger, ''The Age'', 8 October 2014. [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/melbourne-novelist-morris-lurie-dies-at-75-20141008-113666.html "Melbourne novelist Morris Lurie dies at 75"]. Retrieved 8 October 2014</ref>
Lurie succumbed to cancer on 8 October 2014, at the [[Wantirna]] Hospice in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.<ref>Jason Steger, ''The Age'', 8 October 2014. [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/melbourne-novelist-morris-lurie-dies-at-75-20141008-113666.html "Melbourne novelist Morris Lurie dies at 75"]. Retrieved 8 October 2014</ref>


==Awards==
==Awards==
* 1973 – [[Fellowship of Australian Writers|FAW]] State of Victoria Short Story Award: winner for 'Skylight in Lausanne'<ref name = austlit>{{cite web | title = Lurie, Morris | work = | publisher = The Australian Literary Resource (AUSTLIT)| date = | url = http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2bDW | format = | doi = | accessdate = 7 March 2012 }}</ref>
* 1973 – [[Fellowship of Australian Writers|FAW]] State of Victoria Short Story Award: winner for 'Skylight in Lausanne'<ref name = austlit>{{cite web | title = Lurie, Morris | publisher = The Australian Literary Resource (AUSTLIT)| url = http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A%2bDW | accessdate = 7 March 2012 }}</ref>
* 1978 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature: highly commended for 'Flying Home : a novel'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1978 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature: highly commended for 'Flying Home : a novel'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1983 – [[Children's Book Council of Australia]] Book of the Year Award: commended for 'Toby's Millions'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1983 – [[Children's Book Council of Australia]] Book of the Year Award: commended for 'Toby's Millions'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1985 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: joint second for 'The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1985 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: joint second for 'The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1986 winner of the inaugural [[List of CBCA Awards#Australian Children's Choice Awards|Young Australian’s Best Book Award]] for 'The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race'<ref name = austlit/><ref>{{cite web | title = Previous YABBA Winners 1986 – 2011 | work = Section 2 – Fiction for Younger Readers | publisher = Young Australian's Best Book Award, The Children's Choice Book Award in Victoria.
* 1986 winner of the inaugural [[List of CBCA Awards#Australian Children's Choice Awards|Young Australian's Best Book Award]] for 'The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race'<ref name = austlit/><ref>{{cite web | title = Previous YABBA Winners 1986 – 2011 | work = Section 2 – Fiction for Younger Readers | publisher = Young Australian's Best Book Award, The Children's Choice Book Award in Victoria. | url = http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba/ | accessdate = 7 March 2012 | url-status = dead | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20120303091501/http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba/ | archivedate = 3 March 2012}}</ref>
| date = | url = http://home.vicnet.net.au/~yabba/ | format = | doi = | accessdate = 7 March 2012 }}</ref>
* 1988 – NBC Banjo Awards: second for 'Whole Life : An Autobiography'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1988 – NBC Banjo Awards: second for 'Whole Life : An Autobiography'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1991 – [[List of CBCA Awards#Australian Children's Choice Awards|KOALA]], Primary Readers: winner for 'The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race '<ref name = austlit/>
* 1991 – [[List of CBCA Awards#Australian Children's Choice Awards|KOALA]], Primary Readers: winner for 'The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race '<ref name = austlit/>
* 1994 – Island-North Essay Competition: runner-up for The Fat Kid's Revenge <ref name = austlit/>
* 1994 – Island-North Essay Competition: runner-up for The Fat Kid's Revenge<ref name = austlit/>
* 1994 – Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition: winner for 'Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism'<ref name = austlit/>
* 1994 – Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition: winner for 'Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism'<ref name = austlit/>
* 2006 – [[Patrick White Award]] for under-recognised, lifetime achievement in literature<ref name = austlit/><ref>{{Citation | last = Steger | first = Jason | author-link = | title = In the right place at the White time, for $25,000
* 2006 – [[Patrick White Award]] for under-recognised, lifetime achievement in literature<ref name = austlit/><ref>{{Citation | last = Steger | first = Jason | title = In the right place at the White time, for $25,000
| newspaper = The Age | pages = | date = 11 November 2006 | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/in-the-right-place-at-the-white-time/2006/11/10/1162661899433.html
| newspaper = The Age | date = 11 November 2006 | url = http://www.theage.com.au/news/entertainment/in-the-right-place-at-the-white-time/2006/11/10/1162661899433.html
| archiveurl = | archivedate = | accessdate = 7 March 2012}}</ref>
| accessdate = 7 March 2012}}</ref>


==Works==
==Works==
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*''Happy Times'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1969)
*''Happy Times'' (Hodder and Stoughton, 1969)
*''Rappaport's Revenge'' (Angus & Robertson, 1973)
*''Rappaport's Revenge'' (Angus & Robertson, 1973)
*''Home is(1974)
*''Home is'' (1974)
*''Inside the Wardrobe'' (Outback Press, 1975)
*''Inside the Wardrobe'' (Outback Press, 1975)
*''Flying Home'' (Outback Press, 1978)
*''Flying Home'' (Outback Press, 1978)
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Latest revision as of 08:07, 1 May 2024

Morris Lurie
BornMoses Lurie
(1938-10-30)30 October 1938
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Died8 October 2014(2014-10-08) (aged 75)
Wantirna, Victoria, Australia
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Alma materRoyal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Period1966–2014
Notable awardsPatrick White Award (2006)
SpouseHelen Taylor

Moses "Morris" Lurie (30 October 1938 – 8 October 2014) was an Australian writer of comic novels, short stories, essays, plays, and children's books. His work focused on the comic mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) of Lurie's generation, who are invariably jazz fans.

Biography[edit]

Lurie was born Moses Lurie[1] in 1938 to Arie and Esther Lurie (Jewish emigrants from Poland) at the Royal Women's Hospital in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne.[2] He was named after an uncle who had died in Poland.[1] He was schooled at Elwood Central School, Prahran Technical School and Melbourne High School, and then studied architecture at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before working in advertising.

His first novel was the comic Rappaport (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966) and focused on a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend, Friedlander. The characters, transplanted to London, were further chronicled in Rappaport's Revenge (1973). Lurie's self-exile from Australia to Europe, the UK and Northern Africa provides much of the material for his fiction. His second novel was The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968). Flying Home (1978) was named by the National Book Council as one of the ten best Australian books of the decade. Subsequent novels are Seven Books for Grossman (1983)—really a novella parodying the styles of various authors—and Madness (1991), about a writer dealing with a mentally unstable girlfriend.

Lurie is best known for his short stories. In 2000 he wrote an instructional guide When and How to Write Short Stories and What They Are. His stories have been published in many prestigious magazines, including The New Yorker, The Virginia Quarterly, Punch, The Times, The Telegraph Magazine, Transatlantic Review, Island, Meanjin, Overland, Quadrant and Westerly.

In his 2008 novel, To Light Attained, Lurie deals with the subject of suicide.[3] His daughter Rachel had died by suicide in 1993, aged 23.[1]A review of the novel described it as "a father's anguish in words".[4]

Lurie succumbed to cancer on 8 October 2014, at the Wantirna Hospice in Melbourne's eastern suburbs.[5]

Awards[edit]

  • 1973 – FAW State of Victoria Short Story Award: winner for 'Skylight in Lausanne'[6]
  • 1978 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature: highly commended for 'Flying Home : a novel'[6]
  • 1983 – Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: commended for 'Toby's Millions'[6]
  • 1985 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: joint second for 'The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories'[6]
  • 1986 winner of the inaugural Young Australian's Best Book Award for 'The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race'[6][7]
  • 1988 – NBC Banjo Awards: second for 'Whole Life : An Autobiography'[6]
  • 1991 – KOALA, Primary Readers: winner for 'The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race '[6]
  • 1994 – Island-North Essay Competition: runner-up for The Fat Kid's Revenge[6]
  • 1994 – Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition: winner for 'Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism'[6]
  • 2006 – Patrick White Award for under-recognised, lifetime achievement in literature[6][8]

Works[edit]

Novels and short story collections

  • Rappaport (Hodder and Stoughton, 1966)
  • The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1968)
  • Happy Times (Hodder and Stoughton, 1969)
  • Rappaport's Revenge (Angus & Robertson, 1973)
  • Home is (1974)
  • Inside the Wardrobe (Outback Press, 1975)
  • Flying Home (Outback Press, 1978)
  • Running Nicely (Thomas Nelson, 1979)
  • Dirty Friends (Penguin Books, 1981)
  • Seven Books for Grossman (Penguin Books, 1983)
  • Outrageous Behaviour (a collection of best stories, Penguin Books, 1984)
  • The Night We Ate the Sparrow (McPhee Gribble, 1985)
  • Two Brothers, Running (Penguin Books, 1990)
  • Madness (Angus & Robertson, 1991)
  • The String (McPhee Gribble, 1995)
  • Welcome to Tangier (Penguin Books, 1997)
  • The Secret Strength of Children (Bruce Sims Books, 2001)
  • Seventeen Versions of Jewishness: Twenty Examples (Common Ground, 2001)
  • To Light Attained (Hybrid Publishers, 2008)
  • Hergesheimer Hangs In (Arcadia/Australian Scholarly, 2011)
  • Hergesheimer in the Present Tense (Hybrid Publishers, 2014)

Essays and journalism

  • The English in Heat (Angus & Robertson, 1972)
  • Hack Work (Outback Press, 1977)
  • Public Secrets (1981)
  • Snow Jobs (1985)
  • My Life as a Movie (1988)

Other books include a collection of plays called Waterman (1979); an autobiography Whole Life (1987); and a number of children's books, including the popular Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race (1969), which schoolchildren in Victoria voted their favourite young storybook by an Australian author.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c John Van Tiggelen, "The bitter pen", The Sydney Morning Herald, 6 November 1999, Good Weekend, p. 55
  2. ^ a b "Morris Lurie profile Archived 28 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine", Penguin Books, retrieved 2010-01-21
  3. ^ Davidson, Liam (25 October 2009). "A searing account of heartbreaking loss". The Australian – Book Reviews.
  4. ^ Koval, Ramona (20 October 2008). "Morris Lurie's To Light Attained". Radio National – The Book Show. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  5. ^ Jason Steger, The Age, 8 October 2014. "Melbourne novelist Morris Lurie dies at 75". Retrieved 8 October 2014
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Lurie, Morris". The Australian Literary Resource (AUSTLIT). Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  7. ^ "Previous YABBA Winners 1986 – 2011". Section 2 – Fiction for Younger Readers. Young Australian's Best Book Award, The Children's Choice Book Award in Victoria. Archived from the original on 3 March 2012. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  8. ^ Steger, Jason (11 November 2006), "In the right place at the White time, for $25,000", The Age, retrieved 7 March 2012
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