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David Ireland

デイヴィッド・アイアランド

Deividdo Aiarando

Aliases: David Neil Ireland

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1927-08-24 (Lakemba, New South Wales)
Died
2022-07-26 (New South Wales) age 94
Nationality
Australia
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Lakemba, New South Wales → Silverwater, New South Wales

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Greenskeeper, Oil refinery worker
Active Years
1964-2015

Awards

Miles Franklin Award
1971
Work: The Unknown Industrial Prisoner
Organization: Miles Franklin Literary Award
Result: winner
Miles Franklin Award
1976
Work: The Glass Canoe
Organization: Miles Franklin Literary Award
Result: winner
Miles Franklin Award
1979
Work: A Woman of the Future
Organization: Miles Franklin Literary Award
Result: winner
The Advertiser Literary Competition
1966
Work: The Chantic Bird
Result: winner
The Age Book of the Year Award
1980
Work: A Woman of the Future
Organization: The Age
Result: joint winner
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal
1985
Work: Archimedes and the Seagle
Organization: Australian Literature Society
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Unknown Industrial Prisoner

1971 Novel

A novel based on his experience at the Silverwater oil refinery, focusing on industrial workers.

existential issuessociety’s underclassesworkers

The Glass Canoe

1976 Novel

Set in a pub, exploring the underbelly of society.

alcoholismsocial alienation

A Woman of the Future

1979 Novel

A novel featuring a woman of the future.

future societygender

Bibliography

  • Image in the Clay (1964, Drama)
  • The Chantic Bird (1968)
  • The Unknown Industrial Prisoner (1971)
  • The Flesheaters (1972)
  • Burn (1974)
  • The Glass Canoe (1976)
  • A Woman of the Future (1979)
  • City of Women (1981)
  • Archimedes and the Seagle (1984)
  • Bloodfather (1987)
  • The Chosen (1997)
  • The World Repair Video Game (2015)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
mosaic fictionexistential narrativesocial critique
Recurring Motifs
society’s underclassesunemployedalcoholicsmental illness

Legacy

Australian novelist who won the Miles Franklin Award three times, one of only four writers to achieve this.

Trivia

  • Won the Miles Franklin Award three times.
  • Government funding for film adaptation was blocked by political intervention.