Rodney Hall
An author with an international reputation, Rodney Hall has been published in the USA, UK, Australia and Canada and has translations in German, French, Danish, Swedish, Spanish and Portuguese. His many radio and TV scripts have been broadcast by the ABC and the BBC. He is also a musician and actor.
He has twice won the Miles Franklin Award (for Just Relations in 1982 and The Grisly Wife in 1994) and been three-times nominated for the Booker Prize. He won the Canada-Australia Award in 1988, the Victorian Premier's prize for Captivity Captive in 1989, the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society in 1992 and again in 2001 and The FAW Christina Stead Award for his latest work, Love without Hope in 2007.
Rodney Hall’s play, A Return to the Brink was commissioned for the 2001 Melbourne International Festival. He also wrote the libretto and scenario for a music-theatre piece, Whispers, with music by Andrew Ford. The New York Times praised him as, "A thrillingly smart and juicy writer." The Saturday Review (USA) said, "He immediately establishes his place among the best writers of his time."
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