Thea Astley
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Thea Astley (August 25, 1925 - August 17, 2004) was an Australian novelist.
Born in Brisbane and educated at All Hallows' School, Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland then trained to become a teacher.[1] After marrying in 1948, she moved to Sydney where she taught at various high schools as well as writing. In the seventies she tutored at Macquarie University before retiring to write full time in 1980.
Her novels won four Miles Franklin Awards and in 1989 she won the Patrick White Award for services to Australian literature. She was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Queensland in 1989. Much of her writing is set in and influenced by her childhood in Queensland, which she has described as “the place where the tall yarn happens, where it is lived out by people who are the dramatis personae of the tall yarns.”[1]
Thea Astley died in Byron Bay in 2004.
[edit] Bibliography
Novels
- Girl with a Monkey (1958)
- A Descant for Gossips (1960)
- The Well Dressed Explorer (1962) (Franklin Award)
- The Slow Natives (1965) (Franklin Award)
- A Boat Load of Home Folk (1968)
- The Acolyte (1972) (Franklin Award)
- A Kindness Cup (1974)
- An Item from the Late News (1982)
- Beachmasters (1985)
- Reaching Tin River (1990) REVIEW
- Vanishing Points (1992)
- Coda (1994)
- The Multiple Effects of Rainshadow (1996)
- Drylands (1999) (Franklin Award)
Short stories
- Hunting the Wild Pineapple (1979)
- It's Raining in Mango (1987)
- Collected Stories (1997)
Secondary sources
- Susan Sheridan and Paul Genoni (Eds), Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds. (Cambridge Scholars, 2006) ISBN 1-84718-015-9
[edit] External links
- Thea Astley at middlemiss.org
- Literary World Mourns Thea Astley from Syndey Moring Herald
[edit] References
- ^ a b Thea Astley (Jessie Street National Women's Library) Accessed: January 22, 2007.
| Persondata | |
|---|---|
| NAME | Astley, Thea |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Twentieth century Australian novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 17, 2004 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia |
