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Morris Lurie

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Morris Lurie

Aliases: Moses Lurie

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1938-10-30 （Carlton, Victoria, Australia）
Died
2014-10-08 （Wantirna, Victoria, Australia） age 75
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Religion
Judaism
Residence History
Melbourne → Europe → United Kingdom → North Africa

Career

Occupations
novelist, short story writer, playwright, children's book author
Active Years
1966-2014

Education

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University)
Architecture
Country: Australia
建築を学んだ後、広告業に従事。学校：Elwood Central School, Prahran Technical School, Melbourne High School。

Awards

Patrick White Award
2006
Organization: Patrick White Literary Award Trustees
Result: winner
FAW State of Victoria Short Story Award
1973
Work: Skylight in Lausanne
Organization: Fellowship of Australian Writers
Result: winner
National Book Council Award for Australian Literature
1978
Work: Flying Home
Result: highly commended
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award
1983
Work: Toby's Millions
Organization: Children's Book Council of Australia
Result: commended
National Book Council Award for Australian Literature
1985
Work: The Night We Ate the Sparrow
Result: joint second
Young Australian's Best Book Award
1986
Work: The 27th Annual Hippopotamus Race
Result: winner
KOALA Primary Readers
1991
Work: The Twenty-Seventh Annual African Hippopotamus Race
Result: winner
NBC Banjo Awards
1988
Work: Whole Life
Result: second
Island-North Essay Competition
1994
Work: The Fat Kid's Revenge
Result: runner-up
Ulitarra-Sheaffer Pen Short Story Competition
1994
Work: Towards a New Definition of Radical Feminism
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Rappaport

1966 Comic novel

A comic novel about a day in the life of a young Melbourne antique dealer and his immature friend Friedlander.

Jewish-Australian menjazz fanscomic mishaps

Flying Home

1978 Novel

Named one of the ten best Australian books of the decade by the National Book Council.

Jewish-Australian menexile abroad

To Light Attained

2008 Novel

Deals with the subject of suicide, reflecting the author's anguish over his daughter's suicide.

suicidelossfather's anguish

Bibliography

  • Rappaport (1966)
  • The London Jungle Adventures of Charlie Hope (1968)
  • Happy Times (1969)
  • Rappaport's Revenge (1973)
  • Home is (1974)
  • Inside the Wardrobe (1975)
  • Flying Home (1978)
  • Running Nicely (1979)
  • Dirty Friends (1981)
  • Seven Books for Grossman (1983)
  • Outrageous Behaviour (1984)
  • The Night We Ate the Sparrow (1985)
  • Two Brothers, Running (1990)
  • Madness (1991)
  • The String (1995)
  • Welcome to Tangier (1997)
  • The Secret Strength of Children (2001)
  • Seventeen Versions of Jewishness: Twenty Examples (2001)
  • To Light Attained (2008)
  • Hergesheimer Hangs In (2011)
  • Hergesheimer in the Present Tense (2014)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
comic novelsfocus on mishaps of Jewish-Australian men (often writers) who are jazz fans
Recurring Motifs
Jewish-Australian menjazz fansself-exile abroadwriters' lives

Health

  • cancer
    晩年
    Succumbed to cancer on 8 October 2014.

Legacy

Known for comic novels and short stories focusing on Jewish-Australian men; recipient of Patrick White Award for lifetime achievement.

In Popular Culture

  • Popular children's book voted favorite by Victorian schoolchildren.

Trivia

  • Born to Jewish emigrants from Poland.
  • Daughter Rachel died by suicide in 1993 at age 23.
  • Short stories published in The New Yorker, etc.