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also: People: By gender: Men: By nationality: Australian This category exists only as a container for other categories of Australian men . Articles on individual men should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
Adam Lindsay Gordon (19 October 1833 – 24 June 1870) was a British-Australian poet, horseman, police officer and politician. He was the first Australian poet to gain considerable recognition overseas, and according to his contemporary, writer Marcus Clarke, Gordon's work represented "the beginnings of a national school of Australian poetry".
A writer in The Herald from Melbourne noted, after Paterson's death, that the poem "will remain a gem to the Outback as long as the Outback exists." [4]The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature states: "In ironbark the oft-told story reinforces traditional bush suspicion of the city and leads to a pronounced fashion in beards."
Maestro is a 1989 novella written by Australian author Peter Goldsworthy. It is a bildungsroman novel dealing with themes of art and life. The book has been adapted as a stage play and is the subject of an upcoming film of the same name .
AustLit was the first large-scale implementation of the FRBR Model (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records). [8] The FRBR model represents the publication history of works by incorporating the concepts of Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item into a single record, rather than treating each publication separately.
It is a domestic drama chronicling the lives of the Parker family and their changing fortunes over many decades. It is steeped in Australian folklore and cultural myth, and is recognised as the author's attempt to infuse the idiosyncratic way of life in the remote Australian bush with some sense of the cultural traditions and ideologies that the epic history of Western civilisation has ...
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.
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) [1] was an Australian writer and bush poet.Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer".