Olga Masters

The Home Girls

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of acutely candid, witty stories about the dichotomous nature of rural and suburban Australian life.

Produktdetails

• Text Classics
• Verlag: TEXT PUB CO
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 200mm x 127mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 227g
• ISBN-13: 9781922079466
• ISBN-10: 1922079464
• Artikelnr.: 37722147

Autorenporträt

Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales, in 1919. She married at twenty-one and had seven children, working part-time as a journalist, leaving her little opportunity to develop her interest in creative writing until she was in her fifties. In the 1970s Masters wrote a radio play and a stage play, and between 1977 and 1981 she won prizes for her short stories. Her debut, the short-story collection The Home Girls, won a National Book Council Award in 1983. She wrote two novels and three collections of stories, the third of which was published posthumously. Masters died in 1986. Geordie Williamson is chief literary critic of the Australian newspaper, a position he has held since 2008, though his essays and reviews have been appearing in newspapers and magazines here and in the UK for over a decade. In 2011, he won the Pascall Prize for criticism, Australia's national prize awarded for critical writing. He lives in the Blue Mountains with his family.