Rodney Hall

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Rodney Hall (born November 18, 1935 in Solihull , England ) is an Australian writer.

Hall came to Australia in 1947. After completing his training, he began working for an insurance company in Brisbane in 1951 . Since 1961 he worked as a freelance writer. In 1962 he married Bet MacPhail; they have three daughters. In 1967 Hall was granted a Creative Arts Fellowship at the Australian National University ; In 1971 he completed his studies.

Awards

  • 1973 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for A soapbox omnibus
  • 1982 Miles Franklin Award for Just Relations
  • 1989 Victorian Premier's Literary Award in the Fiction category for Captivity captive
  • 1992 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The second bridegroom
  • 1994 Miles Franklin Award for The Grisly Wife
  • 2001 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The day we had Hitler home

Works (selection)

The novel The ship on a coin is a satire on the Australian bourgeoisie; in just relations he creates a white mythology. Captivity captive , The second bridegroom and The grisly wife form a trilogy about the forcible settlement of Australia.

Poetry

  • Pennyless till doomsday (1962)
  • Forty beads on a hangman's rope (1963)
  • The autobiography of a gorgon (1968)
  • The law of karma (1968)
  • A soapbox omnibus (1973)
  • The most beautiful world (1981)

Novels

  • The ship on a coin (1972)
  • Just relations (1982)
  • Captivity captive (1988, Eng .: Caught )
  • The second bridegroom (1991, German: The second bridegroom )
  • The grisly wife (1993, German: The scary woman )
  • The day we had Hitler home (2000)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b biography at the National Library of Australia
  2. ↑ a b List of the award winners
  3. ↑ a b List of the award winners
personal data
SURNAME Hall, Rodney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Solihull , England