Rosanne Hawke

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Rosanne Hawke
Born1953 (age 69–70)
Penola, South Australia, Australia
OccupationAuthor
Genre Young adult and children's literature
Website
www.rosannehawke.com

Rosanne Hawke (born 1953) is an Australian author from Penola, South Australia [1] [2] who has written over 25 books for young adults and children. She teaches tertiary level creative writing (especially writing for children) at Tabor Adelaide. She has a PhD in creative writing from the University of Adelaide.

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Writing career

Hawke lives in a little old Cornish farmhouse near Kapunda, South Australia, [3] and has spent significant time researching Cornish identity in Australian children's literature. She writes about culture, faith, relationships, displacement and belonging, music and cats.

Her first short story was published in the magazine of Moura State School, Queensland in 1967 when she was in grade 8. At 14 years, she moved back to South Australia and attended Gawler High School where she won an Arts Scholarship to complete Years 11 & 12. She started a romantic novel when she was 17 but burnt it later. It wasn't until Rosanne was working in the Middle East and Pakistan, teaching English as a Second Language and bringing up kids that she started to write seriously. [2]

Rosanne was shortlisted for the Australian Aurealis Awards and was a winner in the Kanga Awards Focus List. Some of her best recognised books include Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll (a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book), Across the Creek, (winner of the Cornish 2005 Holyer an Gof Award for Children's Literature) and Taj and the Great Camel Trek (2012 Adelaide Festival Children's Book Award). She has been awarded a Tabor Adelaide Award for Teaching Excellence, 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council, "Citation For Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning", she won Carclew Fellowship at SA Writers Week 2006, is the recipient of the 2014 Nance Donkin Award, and is officially a Bard of Cornwall. [4]

According to Emma Bennett, [5] Hawke pioneered multicultural approaches to writing for children. Her work as a teacher in Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates may have contributed to this slant.

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Critical studies and reviews

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References

  1. ↑ Gale, Something About the Author, v. 165 (2006)
  2. 1 2 "About Rosanne Hawke" . Retrieved 15 June 2012.[ self-published source ]
  3. ↑ "Rosanne Hawke Author". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "Wolfchild – Stone Table Books". stonetablebooks.com. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  5. ↑ Bennett, Emma (1 May 2012). "Cornish-Australian identity and the novels of Rosanne Hawke". Cornish Studies. 20 (1): 166–179. doi:10.1386/corn.20.1.166_1. ISSN   1352-271X.
  6. ↑ "Jehan and the quest of the lost dog". CBCA. Retrieved 19 May 2018.
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