Randolph Stow

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Julian Randolph Stow (born November 28, 1935 in Geraldton , Western Australia , † May 29, 2010 in Harwich ) was an Australian writer.

After graduating from the University of Western Australia , Stow taught English literature at the Universities of Adelaide , Western Australia and Leeds ( UK ). He also worked as an anthropologist among Aborigines in a mission station as well as on the Trobriand Islands and in the area of ​​Milne Bay ( New Guinea ). He lived in Great Britain since 1966.

In 1989 the Randolph Stow Young Writers' Award was established, a writing competition for high school students.

Prizes and awards

  • 1957, 1958 Australian Literature Society gold medal
  • 1958 Miles Franklin Award for To the Islands
  • 1964–1966 Harkness Fellowship, United States of America
  • 1966 Britannica Australia Award
  • 1969 Grace Leven Prize
  • 1974 Commonwealth Literary Fund Grant
  • 1979 Patrick White Literary Award

Works

Novels

  • 1956 A Haunted Land
  • 1957 The Bystander
  • 1958 To the Islands (revised 1982)
  • 1963 Tourmaline
  • 1965 The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea
  • 1979 Visitants
  • 1980 The Girl Green as Elderflower
  • 1984 The Suburbs of Hell

Children's literature

  • 1967 Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy
  • 1978 Midnite: The Play

Poetry

  • 1957 Act One
  • 1962 Outrider: Poems, 1956-1962
  • 1969 Poetry from Australia: Pergamon Poets 6 with Judith Wright and William Hart-Smith
  • 1969 A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems of Randolph Stow

Operas

  • 1969 Eight Songs for a Mad King (Libretto)
  • 1974 Miss Donnithorne's Maggot (libretto)

Sound recordings

  • 1974 Poets on Record 11, University of Queensland

Editorial activities

  • 1964 Australian Poetry

Others

  • 1996 Blood, Sea and Ice: Three English Explorers . Greenwich, National Maritime Museum

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personal data
SURNAME Stow, Randolph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stow, Julian Randolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Geraldton , Western Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 2010
Place of death Harwich