Patricia Shaw

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Patricia Shaw (* 1929 in Melbourne , Australia ) is an Australian non-fiction and novelist who now lives in Queensland on the Gold Coast of Australia.

Patricia Shaw studied history and worked as assistant to the Governor of Queensland and wrote feature articles and short stories. Since 1983 she has headed the Oral History Department in the Parliamentary Library and wrote two non-fiction books on the settlement of Australia.

It was not until she was 52 that she decided to write novels. Among her numerous novels, most of which are family sagas from the time of the settlement of the Australian hinterland and which earned her the title of chronicler of Australia , are the international bestsellers River of the Sun (1991, dt.Sunfire) and The Opal Seekers (1996, dt . Burning dream).

Patricia Shaw is also a committed animal rights activist and is particularly committed to the local birds.

Awards

  • " Corine - International Book Prize 2004" for The Wind of the South

bibliography

Non-fiction

  • Brother Digger (1984)
  • Pioneers of a Trackless Land

Novels

  • Valley of Lagoons (1989, German Südland )
  • River of the Sun (1991, German sun fire ) Vol. 1 of the Buchanan saga (named after a character in a novel, the farmer Darcy Buchanan)
  • The Feather and the Stone (1992, German Weites Wildes Land )
  • Where the Willows Weep (1993, dt. Hot Earth ) sequel to "In the Fire of the Emeralds" although it appeared earlier than "In the Fire of the Emeralds" it is nevertheless the continuation of the four-part Australian saga
  • Cry of the Rainbird (1994, German Call of the Rainbird )
  • Fire Fortune (1995, Eng. The Snake's Dream ) Vol. 2 of the Buchanan saga
  • The Opal Seekers (1996, German Burning Dream )
  • Glittering Fields (1997, German Shining Land )
  • A Cross of Stars (1998, German Golden Grasses or Stars in the Sand )
  • Orchid Bay (1999, fire bay )
  • Waiting for the Thunder (2000, German Valley of Dreams , continuation of Weites Wildes Land)
  • The Dream Seekers (2001, In the land of a thousand suns )
  • On Emerald Downs (2002, Eng. In the fire of the emeralds ) Continuation of Südland
  • The Five Winds (2003, German Wind of the South , continuation of Firebay)
  • Storm Bay (2005, German island of the scorching sun )
  • The Captain's Lady (2007, Salt of Hope )
  • Mango Hill (2008, German In the Valley of the Mango Trees ) Continuation of Hot Earth

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personal data
SURNAME Shaw, Patricia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shaw, Pat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne , Victoria, Australia