Нэнс Донкин
Нэнс Донкин | |
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 Донкин в 1953 году | |
| Рожденный | Nance Clare Pender 7 March 1915 Мейтленд , Новый Южный Уэльс, Австралия |
| Died | 18 April 2008 (aged 93) Canterbury, Victoria, Australia |
| Pen name | Alison Clare |
Нэнс Клэр Донкин А.М. (7 марта 1915 г. - 18 апреля 2008 г.) была австралийским детским писателем и журналистом.
Ранняя жизнь и образование
[ редактировать ]Нэнс Клэр Пендер родилась в Мейтленде 7 марта 1915 года, [ 1 ] Самая младшая дочь Арчибальда Томаса и Клары Роуз Пендер. [ 2 ] У нее было две сестры и три брата. [ 3 ] Она получила образование в средней школе Мейтленда и была назначена секретарем молодого состава Союза Олд девочки в 1934 году. [ 4 ]
Карьера
[ редактировать ]Донкин опубликовала свой первый рассказ в возрасте восьми лет, и начал писать на социальных событиях для Maitland Daily Mercury в 16 лет. [ 1 ] Оттуда она переехала в Newcastle Morning Herald , где она была социальной и модной редактором, а также рассмотрела фильмы. [ 5 ]
Donkin married Victor E. Donkin at West Maitland on 14 January 1939[2] and moved to England where she worked as a freelance writer, including radio scripts.[6] The following year her husband's company transferred him back to Australia[7] and she began writing as Alison Clare.[6]
Nancy Shepherdson, writing in Twentieth-century Children's Writers, considered Donkin's first books to have "uninspired plots and much digressive conversation".[8]
Donkin served as president of the Children's Book Council of Australia (Victoria) from 1968 to 1976.[1]
In 1984 she wrote Stranger and Friend, a nonfiction book about Greek migrants to Australia. She had first visited Greece 18 years earlier and returned several times. The book aimed to improve the relationship between Greeks and Australians by describing the Greek tradition of hospitality and friendship.[9]
Donkin wrote two collections of biographies of Australian women, The Women Were There: Nineteen Women Who Enlivened Australia's History[10] and Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia.[11]
Awards and recognition
[edit]Donkin was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 1986 Australia Day Honours for "service to the community, particularly in the fields of children's literature and adult education".[12] She received the Alice Award from the NSW branch of the Society of Women Writers in 1990.[1]
Selected works
[edit]Fiction
[edit]- Araluen Adventures, (Edith B. Bowden, illustrator), 1946
- House by the Water, 1969
- A Currency Lass, (Jane Walker, illustrator), 1969
- Johnny Neptune, 1971
- Margaret Catchpole (Edwina Bell, illustrator), 1974
- A Friend for Petros, 1974
- Yellowgum Girl, 1976
- Green Christmas, 1976
- The Best of the Bunch, (Edwina Bell, illustrator), 1978
- Nini, 1979
- Two at Sullivan Bay, (Margaret Senior, illustrator), 1985
Nonfiction
[edit]- Stranger and Friend: The Greek-Australian Experience, 1984
- The Women Were There: Nineteen Women Who Enlivened Australia's History, 1988
- Always a Lady: Courageous Women of Colonial Australia, 1990
Death
[edit]Donkin died at Faversham House in Canterbury, Victoria on 18 April 2008.[1] She was survived by her daughter and son and their families. Her death notice in the Herald Sun concluded, "A storyteller, a teller of tales and weaver of dreams".[13]
Nancy Donkin Literary Award
[edit]The Nancy Donkin Literary Award was inaugurated by Donkin's family and the Society of Women Writers Victoria and has been presented biennially since 2009. [14]
Winners:[14]
- 2009 Ruth Starke
- 2011 Isobel Carmody
- 2013 Cassandra Golds
- 2015 Roseanne Hawke
- 2017 Anna Walker
- 2019 Dianne Wolfer
- 2021 Anna Ciddor
References
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Nance Donkin". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Approaching Marriages". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 19, 422. New South Wales, Australia. 10 January 1939. p. 3. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Estate of £2482". The Maitland Daily Mercury. No. 20, 946. New South Wales, Australia. 2 June 1938. p. 4. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Old Girls' Union". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 17, 914. New South Wales, Australia. 14 March 1934. p. 10. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Jottings of a Lady About Town". Brisbane Truth. No. 1960. Queensland, Australia. 17 October 1937. p. 39. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Children's Book By Former "Herald" Writer". Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate. No. 21, 863. New South Wales, Australia. 30 October 1946. p. 5. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "In and Out of Brisbane with Penelope". Sunday Mail. No. 543. Queensland, Australia. 15 September 1940. p. 18. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Kirkpatrick, D. L. (10 November 1978). Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan International Higher Education. ISBN 978-1-349-03648-6.
- ^ "Author offers a guide to what makes Greeks tick". The Canberra Times. Vol. 58, no. 17, 650. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 25 January 1984. p. 25. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Magazine: Books". The Canberra Times. Vol. 63, no. 19, 519. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 18 March 1989. p. 21. Retrieved 2 January 2022 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ Донкин, Нэнс (1990), всегда женщина: смелые женщины колониальной Австралии , Коллинз Голубь, ISBN 978-0-85924-967-6
- ^ «Миссис Нэнс Клэр Донкин» . Это честь . Получено 1 января 2022 года .
- ^ «Донкин, Нэнс Клэр» . Еженедельно сейчас . 11 августа 2008 г. Получено 1 января 2022 года .
- ^ Jump up to: а беременный «Награда Нэнса Донкина за детскую литературу» . Общество женщин -писателей Виктория . Получено 1 января 2022 года .
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