Sally Morrison (born 29 June 1946) is an Australian writer of fiction and biography. She was born in Sydney NSW in 1946 but her family moved to Canberra when her father moved there for a position in the federal public service.
Sally Morrison has been a writer all her life, however, she spent her professional career as a molecular biologist at the University of Melbourne.
She started writing in the early 70s when she had a play "Hag" directed by Richard Wherrett at the 1976 National Playwrights Festival. [1]
This was followed by her first novel Who's Taking You to the Dance? in 1979 and in 1989 a collection of stories, I Am a Boat. Her novel Mad Meg won the 1995 Australian National Book Council's Banjo Award and since then there have been two more novels: Against Gravity and The Insatiable Desire of Injured Love. [1]
She has also written a biography of the Australian painter Clifton Pugh, published in 2009 by Hardie Grant, Australia. [2]
Sally Morrison's new novel Window Gods, a sequel to Mad Meg, was published in October 2014 by Hardie Grant in Australia and UK. [3]
Recent activities include a presentation made at a Symposium organised by the Royal Society of Victoria within the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne, on 18 April 2009 to recognise the life's work of Professor Nancy Millis and a floor talk The art of Moochin' at the NGV Ian Potter Gallery on 7 August 2010
1995 Australian National Book Council's Banjo Award for Mad Meg.
Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, known by her pen name Henry Handel Richardson, was an Australian author.
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Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer, and historian.
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Mary Reibey née Haydock was an English-born merchant, shipowner and trader who was transported to Australia as a convict. After gaining her freedom, she was viewed by her contemporaries as a community role model and became legendary as a successful businesswoman in the colony.
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia.
Clifton Ernest Pugh AO, was an Australian artist and three-time winner of Australia's Archibald Prize. One of Australia's most renowned and successful painters, Pugh was strongly influenced by German Expressionism, and was known for his landscapes and portraiture. Important early group exhibitions include The Antipodeans, the exhibition for which Bernard Smith drafted a manifesto in support of Australian figurative painting, an exhibition in which Arthur Boyd, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman showed; a joint exhibition with Barry Humphries, in which the two responded to Dadaism; and Group of Four at the Victorian Artists Society Gallery with Pugh, John Howley, Don Laycock and Lawrence Daws.
Peg Powler is a hag and water spirit in English folklore who inhabits the River Tees. Similar to the Grindylow, Jenny Greenteeth, and Nelly Longarms, she drags children into the water if they get too close to the edge. She is regarded as a bogeyman figure who is invoked by parents to frighten children into proper behavior. The 19th century folklorist William Henderson describes Peg Powler as having green hair and "an insatiable desire for human life" and she is said to lure people into the river to drown or be devoured. The foam or froth which is often seen floating on certain parts of the Tees is called "Peg Powler's suds" or "Peg Powler's cream".
June Clyde was an American actress, singer and dancer known for roles in such pre-Code films as A Strange Adventure (1932) and A Study in Scarlet (1933).
Winifred Lewellin James was an Australian writer. As a novelist, travel writer and journalist, her career began with her first novel published in 1907. During her time in London, she lost her Australian nationality and after a fight extending over many years, regained her nationality in 1935. Her final novel, The Gods Arrive, was published in Melbourne shortly after her death in 1941.
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Janine Burke is an Australian author, art historian, biographer, novelist and photographer. She also curates exhibitions of historical and contemporary art. She is Honorary Senior Fellow, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music, University of Melbourne. She was born in Melbourne in 1952.
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Coral Magnolia Lansbury was an Australian-born feminist writer and academic. Working in the United States from 1969 until her death, she became Distinguished Professor of English and Dean of Graduate Studies at Rutgers University.
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The National Book Council Banjo Awards were presented by the National Book Council of Australia from 1974 to 1997 for works of fiction and non-fiction.
Realities Gallery was a Melbourne gallery which showed work of Australian art of the western and indigenous traditions, and Pacific and international art. It operated from 1971 to 1992.
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