ACT Book of the Year
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2000) Winner
Adrian Caesar
アドリアン・シーザー
Adrian Caesar
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1955 （Manchester, United Kingdom）
- Nationality
- Australian
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Manchester, United Kingdom (birth-1982) → Australia (since 1982)
Career
- Occupations
- Lecturer, writer, poet
- Active Years
- 1991-2024
- Affiliations
- Australian National University, University of New South Wales School of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Nominations
- Judith Wright Prize 2007 shortlist (High Wire), Voss Literary Prize 2016 longlist (The Blessing)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading University | — | — | B.A. Hons, PhD | — | United Kingdom |
Reading University
Degree:
B.A. Hons, PhD
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction | The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 | Non-fiction | Victorian Premier's Literary Awards | Winner |
| 2000 | A.C.T. Book of the Year | The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 | — | — | Winner |
Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
2000
Work:
The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913
Category:
Non-fiction
Organization:
Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
Result:
Winner
A.C.T. Book of the Year
2000
Work:
The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913
Result:
Winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913
1999 Non-fiction novelA non-fiction novel based on the Antarctic explorations of Robert F. Scott and Douglas Mawson from 1911 to 1913.
Antarctic explorationExplorers' ordeal
The Blessing
2015 NovelA novel long-listed for the Voss Literary Prize in 2016.
Bibliography
- Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class and ideology in the 1930s (1991)
- Taking it Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality and the War Poets (1993)
- Kenneth Slessor (1995)
- Hunger Games (1996)
- Life Sentences (1998)
- The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 (1999)
- The June Fireworks: New and Selected Poems (2001)
- High Wire (2005)
- Dark Cupboards New Rooms (2014)
- The Blessing (2015)
Legacy
Australian author and poet known for the non-fiction novel The White, which won the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction. Has published several poetry collections.
Trivia
- Emigrated from the United Kingdom to Australia in 1982.