Thea Astley () a fost o nuvelista si romanciera de origine australiana. Cartile ei au fost publicate timp de peste 40 de ani, din 1958. La vremea morții ei, câstigase mai multe premii Miles Franklin Award, cel mai important premiu literar australian, decât orice alt scriitor.
Premii și nominalizări
1962: Miles Franklin Award pentru The Well-Dressed Explorer 1965: Miles Franklin Award pentru The Slow Natives 1965: Moomba Award pentru The Slow Natives 1972: Miles Franklin Award pentru The Acolyte 1975: The Age Book of the Year Fiction Award pentru The Kindness Cup 1980: Australian Literature Studies Award pentru Hunting the Wild Pineapple 1980: Member of the Order of Australia (OAM) 1986: ALS Gold Medal pentru Beachmasters 1989: Patrick White Award 1990: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Christina Stead Prize for fiction pentru Reaching Tin River 1992: Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) 1996: The Age Book of the Year Fiction award pentru The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow 1999: Miles Franklin Award pentru Drylands 2000: Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Fiction Book Award pentru Drylands 2002: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
Operă
Romane
Girl with a Monkey (1958) A Descant for Gossips (1960) The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) The Slow Natives (1965) A Boat Load of Home Folk (1968) The Acolyte (1972) A Kindness Cup (1974) An Item from the Late News (1982) Beachmasters (1985) It's Raining in Mango (1987) Reaching Tin River (1990) Vanishing Points (1992) Coda (1994) The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996) Drylands (1999)
Nuvele
Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979) Collected Stories (1997)
Referințe
Legături externe
Lumea scriitorilor o regretă pe Thea Astley de la Sydney Morning Herald''
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