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| birth_place = [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]], Victoria, Australia
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| death_place = [[Wantirna]], Victoria Australia
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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.


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 (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 | 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>
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*''My Life as a Movie'' (1988)
*''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 was voted the favourite young storybook by an Australian author by schoolchildren in Victoria.<ref name="penguin" />
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.<ref name="penguin" />


==References==
==References==

Revision as of 20:38, 9 October 2014

Morris Lurie
Born(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

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

Lurie was born in 1938 to Arie and Esther Lurie (Jewish emigrants from Poland) at the Royal Women's Hospital in Carlton, a suburb of Melbourne.[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.[2] A review of the novel described it as "a father's anguish in words".[3]

Morris Lurie died of cancer on 8 October 2014, at the Wantirna Hospice.[4]

Awards

  • 1973 – FAW State of Victoria Short Story Award: winner for 'Skylight in Lausanne'[5]
  • 1978 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature: highly commended for 'Flying Home : a novel'[5]
  • 1983 – Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award: commended for 'Toby's Millions'[5]
  • 1985 – National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1985: joint second for 'The Night We Ate the Sparrow : A Memoir and Fourteen Stories'[5]
  • 1986 winner of the inaugural Young Australian’s Best Book Award award for 'The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race'[6][5]
  • 1988 – NBC Banjo Awards: second for 'Whole Life : An Autobiography'[5]
  • 1991 – KOALA, Primary Readers: winner for 'The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race '[5]
  • 1994 – Island-North Essay Competition: runner-up for The Fat Kid's Revenge [5]
  • 1994 – Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition: winner for 'Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism'[5]
  • 2006 – Patrick White Award for under-recognised, lifetime achievement in literature[7][5]

Works

Novels and short story collections

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

Essays and journalism

  • The English in Heat (1972)
  • Hack Work (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.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "Morris Lurie profile", Penguin Books, retrieved 2010-01-21
  2. ^ Davidson, Liam (25 October 2009). "A searing account of heartbreaking loss". The Australian – Book Reviews. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ Koval, Ramona (20 October 2008). "Morris Lurie's To Light Attained". Radio National – The Book Show. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  4. ^ Jason Steger, The Age, 8 October 2014. "Melbourne novelist Morris Lurie dies at 75". Retrieved 8 October 2014
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Lurie, Morris". The Australian Literary Resource (AUSTLIT). Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  6. ^ "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. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  7. ^ Steger, Jason (11 November 2006), "In the right place at the White time, for $25,000", The Age, retrieved 7 March 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)

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