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Peter Mathers

ピーター・マザーズ

Pītā Mazāzu

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1931-07-16 （England）
Died
2004-11-08 （Melbourne） age 73
Nationality
Australia
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Sydney, Australia → France, cork oak forest → London, England → Britain and Europe → United States → Melbourne, Australia

Career

Occupations
author, playwright, farmer, clerk, wooler, gardener, landscaper, chemical worker, researcher
Active Years
1960-2004

Education

Sydney Technical College
Agriculture
Country: Australia
Attended state school in Sydney

Awards

Miles Franklin Literary Award
1966
Work: Trap
Organization: Miles Franklin Literary Award
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Trap

1966 comic novel

An inventive and often comic novel concerning the escapades and family history of Jack Trap, an urban mixed-blood Aboriginal person in a racially divided society under the White Australia policy.

racialismsatirefamily historysocial oppression

The Wort Papers

1972 satirical novel

A novel ranging across rural Australia from Kimberley to northern New South Wales, noted for stylistic innovation and satire.

rural lifebig businesspoliticssatire

A Change For the Better

short story collection

Collection of short stories.

Style & Themes

Literary Style
stylistic innovatorsatiricalexperimentalhumorous
Recurring Motifs
racial issuessocial injusticerural life

Health

  • pancreatic cancer
    2004年
    Cause of death

Legacy

English-born Australian author and playwright known for innovative style, satire, and winning the Miles Franklin Literary Award with Trap.

Quotes

  • Jack Trap is an awe-inspiring mixture of Irish, English, Aborigine, and even Tierra del Fuegan. But he looks Aboriginal.
    Source: Dustjacket of the first edition of Trap (1966)

Trivia

  • Family emigrated to Australia while he was a child
  • Lived in a cork oak forest in France after marrying in 1961
  • Two daughters born in London