Victor Kelleher
Autore di Taronga
Sull'Autore
Victor Kelleher was born in London in 1939 and moved to Australia in 1976 via Africa and New Zealand. He was formerly an associate professor of literature, but chose to write full-time from his home He writes books for both children and adults including Papio, Baily's Bones, The Red King, Taronga, mostra altro Fire Dancer, The Ivory Trail, Brother Night, Dogboy, and Goblin in the Snow. He has won numerous awards including the Ditmar Award for Best Australian Novel for Beast of Heaven in 1985, Kids Own Aust Literature Award (KOALA) in 1991 for The Red King, the Children's Peace Lit Award (PEACE) in 1989 for The Makers, and the CBC Book of the Year in 1983 for Master of the Grove. He also writes under the pseudonym of Veronica Hart. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Victor Kelleher
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Into the Future: another exciting collection of stories from sixteen of Australia's top children's authors (1991) — Collaboratore — 12 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1939-07-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- Australia
- Luogo di nascita
- London, England, UK
- Luogo di residenza
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Armidale, New South Wales, Australia
New Zealand
South Africa - Attività lavorative
- lecturer
novelist
short-story writer
children's book author
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Recensioni
Liste
SFF Down Under (1)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 54
- Opere correlate
- 6
- Utenti
- 1,168
- Popolarità
- #22,017
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 15
- ISBN
- 175
- Lingue
- 5
- Preferito da
- 1
I really enjoyed the book and loved the retro eighties feel - the cover of my book is a "Ken Done" illustration, and if you took the path taken by Ben from the Blue Mountains, through Windsor and into Sydney these days, there'd be very little bush and loads of outer suburban housing - ain't progress grand!… (altro)