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Nicholas Hasluck

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Nicholas Hasluck at the Mosman Library, July 2011
BornNicholas Paul Hasluck
(1942-10-17) 17 October 1942 (age 80)
Canberra, A.C.T.
OccupationNovelist, judge
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Notable worksThe Bellarmine Jug, The Country Without Music
Notable awards The Age Book of the Year, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards

Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born 17 October 1942) is an Australian novelist, poet, short story writer, and former judge.

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Early life

Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government under Robert Menzies, and was later appointed Governor-General of Australia. Nicholas went to school at Scotch College, Perth, and Canberra Grammar School, before studying law at University of Western Australia (1963) and Oxford (1966). After completing his studies he worked briefly in Fleet Street in London as an editorial assistant before returning to Australia in 1967 to work as a solicitor, initially in partnership with Robert Holmes à Court. [1] He was a partner in the law firm Keall Brinsden from 1971 to 1984. While working as a barrister from 1985 to 2000 he was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1988 and served as part-time President of the Equal Opportunity Tribunal (WA). He was deputy chair of the Australia Council from 1978 to 1982 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM). [2] He served as Chair of the Literature Board from 1998 to 2001 and as Chair of the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 2014 to 2018.

Judicial career

On 1 May 2000, Hasluck was appointed a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the State of Western Australia. He retired as a judge on 5 May 2010.

Writing career

Hasluck started writing at school, producing poetry and essays for the school magazine and was first professionally published in 1964 with a poem appearing in Westerly literary magazine. [3]

Hasluck's books fall into two categories, which he describes as "moral thriller genre and satire", with the thriller interesting him the most. [4] He cites the American writers William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal as his main literary influences. [5]

In 2006, Hasluck became Chairperson of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. He completed his term in 2011.

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Bibliography

Novels

Short story collections

Poetry

Non-fiction

Plays

Articles

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  1. ↑ McIlwraith, John (2007). "Holmes à Court, Michael Robert (1937–1990)". Holmes à Court, Michael Robert Hamilton (1937 - 1990). Retrieved 25 December 2010.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  2. ↑ "Nicholas Paul Hasluck". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  3. ↑ Baker (1986) p. 163.
  4. ↑ Baker (1986) p. 162.
  5. ↑ Baker (1986) p. 177.
  6. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas; Brissenden collection (23 August 1978), Quarantine, The Macmillan Co. of Australia (published 1978), ISBN   978-0-333-23011-4
  7. ↑ "TENSION REDUCED". The Canberra Times . Vol. 52, no. 15, 645. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 23 July 1978. p. 13. Retrieved 9 June 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  8. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 1980), The blue guitar, Macmillan (published 1980), ISBN   978-0-333-29898-5
  9. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 1982), The hand that feeds you : a satiric nightmare, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (published 1982), ISBN   978-0-909144-55-5
  10. ↑ Nicholas P. Hasluck (23 August 1991), The Bellarmine jug a novel (Large print ed.), Melbourne Australian LargePrint (published 1990), ISBN   978-1-86340-146-3
  11. ↑ "Spoiled by abstractions". The Canberra Times . Vol. 59, no. 17, 898. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 September 1984. p. 16. Retrieved 9 June 2023– via National Library of Australia.
  12. ↑ Nicholas P. Hasluck (23 August 1987), Truant state, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia Penguin Books (published 1987), ISBN   978-0-14-010466-0
  13. ↑ Nicholas P. Hasluck (23 August 1990), The country without music, Ringwood, Victoria Viking; assisted by the Literature Board of the Australia Council (published 1990), ISBN   978-0-670-83514-0
  14. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 1992), The Blosseville file, Penguin Books (published 1992), ISBN   978-0-14-015988-2
  15. ↑ Nicholas P. Hasluck (23 August 1994), A grain of truth, Ringwood, Vic Penguin (published 1994), ISBN   978-0-14-023769-6
  16. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 1999), Our man K, Penguin (published 1999), ISBN   978-0-14-028249-8
  17. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas; Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942- (2011), Dismissal, Fourth Estate, ISBN   978-0-7322-9303-1 {{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  18. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 2023), Rooms in the city : a novel, Arcadia an imprint of Australian Scholarly Publishing (published 2014), ISBN   978-1-925003-68-0
  19. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (28 July 2016), The Bradshaw case, Arcadia (published 2016), ISBN   978-1-925333-48-0
  20. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas; Walker, Peter (23 August 1978), The hat on the letter O and other stories, Fremantle Arts Centre Press (published 1978), ISBN   978-0-909144-11-1
  21. ↑ Lee, Kim Pat (23 August 2023), Wobbling the whiteboard : five satirical squibs, Freshwater Bay Press (published 2003), ISBN   978-1-74008-242-6
  22. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 1976), Anchor and other poems (2nd ed.), Fremantle Arts Centre Press (published 1976), ISBN   978-0-909144-02-9
  23. ↑ Grono, William; Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942- (1980), On the edge, Freshwater Bay Press, retrieved 9 June 2023{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  24. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (23 August 2023), A dream divided (1st ed.), Access Press (published 2005), ISBN   978-0-86445-175-0
  25. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (1993), Offcuts : from a legal literary life, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN   978-1-875560-17-2
  26. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas (2007), Somewhere in the atlas : the road to Khe Sanh and other travel pieces, Freshwater Bay Press, ISBN   978-1-74008-440-6
  27. ↑ Hasluck, Nicholas, 1942- (7 November 2019). Beyond the equator : an Australian memoir. North Melbourne, Vic. ISBN   978-1-925984-11-8. OCLC   1128812905.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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