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There were five main arenas where Australian Great War Poetry was written in the period of 1914 to 1939: the Home Front, Gallipoli, The Middle East, The Western Front and England. These arenas were to form important segregations of poetic attitude and interest specific to the war mood at the time.
List of Australian writers by type. List of Australian diarists of World War I; List of Australian diarists of World War I (A-G) List of Australian diarists of World War I (H-N) List of Australian diarists of World War I (O-Z) List of Indigenous Australian writers; List of Australian novelists; List of Australian poets; List of Australian women ...
While writing most of his novels in England, Boyd's novels frequently focus on the contrasting and conflicting realities of upper-class English and Australian societies. [28] He tended to concentrate on the niceties and absurdities of social exchanges, instead of a greater concern with universal problems of human life. [26]
Australian literature is the written or literary work produced in the area or by the people of the Commonwealth of Australia and its preceding colonies. During its early Western history, Australia was a collection of British colonies; as such, its recognised literary tradition begins with and is linked to the broader tradition of English literature.
B Rolf Boldrewood Gregory Victor Babic (1963–2013) Elizabeth Backhouse (1917–2013) Van Badham (born 1974) Murray Bail (born 1941) Allan Baillie (born 1943) Margaret Balderson (born 1935) Faith Bandler (1918–2015) Marjorie Barnard (1897–1987) Robert G. Barrett (1942–2012) John Arthur Barry (1850–1911) Max Barry (born 1973) Catherine Bateson (born 1960) Alan Baxter (born 1970) John ...
German author Hans Herbert Grimm wrote a novel Schlump in 1928 which was published anonymously due to its satirical and anti-war tone, loosely based on the author's own experiences as a military policeman in German-occupied France during WW1. The novel was banned by the Nazis in 1933 and Grimm was not credited as the author until 2013. [15]
Watkin Tench, author of The Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson, is a key character in The Timeless Land. The book was reprinted in 2002 and the novel was on the curriculum for high school students in Australia in the mid-twentieth century. The subsequent books in The Timeless Land trilogy are Storm of Time (1948) and No Barrier ...
James Gunn (author), U.S. Navy (This Fortress World) Dashiell Hammett, was assigned to Army Intelligence on the Aleutian Islands. He assisted in writing Battle of the Aleutians... He went on to write a number of detective novels; Sven Hassel, Danish-born penal regiment soldier; Robert A. Heinlein, Lt., graduate of the United States Naval Academy.