Rodney Hall
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Rodney Hall OAM (1935) is an Australian writer.
Born in Birmingham, England, Hall came to Australia as a child. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published ten novels, including Just Relations and The Island in the Mind. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. In the early 1990s he served as chair of the Australia Council.
Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards, he has received an Order of Australia Medal.
Rodney's most recent novel Love without Hope will be launched Early February '07 published by Picador.
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[edit] Awards
| The Miles Franklin Award | Just Relations, winner 1982 |
| The Grisly Wife, winner 1994 | |
| Captivity Captive, shortlisted 1989 | |
| The Second Bridegroom, shortlisted 1992 | |
| The Day We Had Hitler Home, shortlisted 2001 | |
| Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Captivity Captive, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1989 |
| The Age Book of the Year Award | The Island in the Mind, Fiction Prize shortlisted 1996 |
| Australian Literature Society Gold Medal | The Second Bridegroom, winner 1992 |
| NBC Banjo Awards | Captivity Captive, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1989 |
| The Grisly Wife, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1994 | |
| The Island in the Mind, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1997 | |
| FAW Barbara Ramsden Award | Just Relations, Book of the Year winner 1982 |
| FAW ANA Literature Award | Just Relations, winner 1982 |
| Grace Leven Poetry Prize | A Soapbox Omnibus, winner 1973 |
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- The Ship on the Coin (1972)
- A Place Among People (1975)
- Just Relations (1982)
- Kisses of the Enemy (1987)
- Captivity Captive (1988)
- The Second Bridegroom (1991)
- The Grisly Wife (1993)
- The Island in the Mind (1996)
- The Day We Had Hitler Home (2000)
- The Last Love Story (2004)
- Love Without Hope (2007)
[edit] Poetry
- Penniless Till Doomsday (1962)
- Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope (1963)
- Eyewitness (1967)
- The Autobiography of a Gorgon (1968)
- The Law of Karma (1968)
- Heaven, In a Way (1970)
- A Soapbox Omnibus (1973)
- Selected Poems (1975)
- Black Bagatelles (1978)
- The Most Beautiful World (1981)
[edit] Government/Politics
- Abolish the States! (1998)
[edit] Non-Fiction
- Focus on Andrew Sibley (1968)
- J. S. Manifold: An Introduction to the Man and His Work (1978)
- Australia - Image of a Nation 1850-1950 (1983) (the text of a photographic collection)
- Home: Journey Through Australia (1988)
[edit] Edited
- New Impulses in Australian Poetry (1968) with Thomas Shapcott
- Australian Poetry 1970 (1970)
- Poems from Prison (1973)
- Australians Beware (1975) (a collection of poems and paintings)
- Voyage into Solitude (1978) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
- The Second Month of Spring (1980) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
- The Collins Book of Australian Poetry (1981)
- Michael Dransfield Collected Poems (1987)
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| NAME | Hall, Rodney |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | British born Australian novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Birmingham, United Kingdom |
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