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Robert Drewe

Auteur de The Shark Net

33+ oeuvres 1,713 utilisateurs 35 critiques 2 Favoris

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Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1943. He grew up and was educated in Western Australia where he took up journalism with the West Australian in 1961. He was the literary editor for the Australian from 1971 to 1974. He won the Walkley Award (Australia's highest such award) twice for afficher plus journalism in 1976 and 1981. Drewe's novel, The Drowner was shortlisted for the 1997 Miles Franklin Award. It also made Australian literary history by becoming the first novel to win the Premier's Literary Prize in every state. It also won the Australian Book of the Year Prize, the Adelaide Festival Prize for literature and was voted one of the ten best international novels of the decade. Other books by Drewe were also prize winners: Fortune won the National Book Council fiction prize in Australia. One of his anthologies, The Bay of Contented Men, won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, while another, the bestseller The Bodysurfers, has been adapted for film, television, radio and stage. Robert Drewe is also a film critic, playwright and the author of several screenplays. His stage drama, South American Barbecue, was first performed in 1991. In 2015 he will be awarded a State Living Treasures Award by the Western Australian state government. The award is given to `highly regarded and skilled¿ career artists who have worked within or created work about Western Australia, passed on their knowledge to other artists, and demonstrated a commitment or contribution to the Western Australian arts sector. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
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Œuvres de Robert Drewe

The Shark Net (2000) 378 exemplaires
The Bodysurfers (1983) 182 exemplaires
The Drowner (1996) 171 exemplaires
Our Sunshine (1991) 143 exemplaires
10 Short Stories You Must Read This Year (2009) — Contributeur — 106 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of the City (1997) 84 exemplaires
Grace (2005) 83 exemplaires
The Savage Crows (1976) 73 exemplaires
The Rip (Famous regiments) (2008) 57 exemplaires
A Cry in the Jungle Bar (1979) 46 exemplaires
Ned Kelly: (movie tie-in) (2004) 44 exemplaires
The Bay of Contented Men (1989) 39 exemplaires
Whipbird (2017) 38 exemplaires
Fortune (1986) 33 exemplaires
The Best Australian Stories 2006 (2006) — Directeur de publication — 31 exemplaires
The Picador book of the beach (1993) 31 exemplaires
Montebello (2012) 23 exemplaires
The Best Australian Essays 2010 (2010) — Directeur de publication — 23 exemplaires
The Best Australian Stories 2007 (2007) — Directeur de publication — 22 exemplaires
The Penguin Book of the Beach (2002) 20 exemplaires
Penguin Australian Summer Stories 3 (2001) — Directeur de publication — 14 exemplaires
Walking Ella a Dog Day Dossier (1998) 14 exemplaires
The true colour of the sea (2018) 12 exemplaires
The local wildlife (2013) 9 exemplaires
Heatwave; Penguin Australia summer stories (2003) — Contributeur — 8 exemplaires
Bondi (1984) 6 exemplaires
Swimming to the Moon (2014) 5 exemplaires
New Fremantle Poets 1 (2010) — Auteur — 4 exemplaires
Sand (2010) 4 exemplaires
Nimblefoot (2022) 4 exemplaires
The beach : an Australian passion (2015) 3 exemplaires
Le maitre de l'eau (1998) 2 exemplaires
Nimble foot 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Granta 61: The Sea (1998) — Contributeur — 148 exemplaires
Sex and Death: Stories (2016) — Contributeur — 43 exemplaires
Sydney Noir (2018) — Contributeur — 30 exemplaires
Writers on writing (2002) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires
The Best Australian Essays 2006 (2006) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
The Best Australian Stories 2010 (2010) — Contributeur — 22 exemplaires
The Best Australian Stories 2008 (2004) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
The Best Australian Stories 2009 (2009) — Contributeur — 14 exemplaires

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Perfect reading for a West Australian heatwave - I'm about half a generation younger than Drewe and arrived in Perth about a decade after him but there is a familiarity about his description of the sand people with their peeling skin and cracked lips, the barefoot children and the scorn for the shod, the limestone foundationed houses, and the "big fish in small pond" social life of my home city. Beautifully written, funny and poignant, showing the angst of a suburban adolescence (long before Dave Warner from the Suburbs sang "Suburban Boy") and set against the real backdrop of the murder spree that is still remembered as the time Perth "lost its innocence", this book would speak to anyone, not just locals like myself. Highly recommended.… (plus d'informations)
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Figgles | 11 autres critiques | Dec 29, 2021 |
The retelling of a childhood in Western Australia. A young boy growing up in the most remote capital city in the world. He ran free with his mates, riding bikes, swimming in the surf and playing sport. In the background was a serial killer, stalking the women in the community.

The writing is joyous and creates evocative images of the 50s in a developing city in Australia. The brightness and beauty of the natural landscape is such an incongruous setting for murder. As a cadet journalist the author reports on the trial of the killer.… (plus d'informations)
 
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jannnyg | 11 autres critiques | Aug 10, 2021 |
Robert Drewe is an Australian author, and his novel «The Bodysurfers» was first published in the 1980. It is hard to say what the novel is about, but the very memorable opening scene seems to set the whole novel as if located on the beaches of Australia and the American east coast. Retrospectively, the novel does seem to be very typical of the 80s but as it is difficult to say what the novel is about, so it is difficult to explain what gives you this feeling. Unremarkable.
 
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edwinbcn | 3 autres critiques | Feb 19, 2020 |
Great collection from a masterful story teller
 
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Faradaydon | Oct 7, 2018 |

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Œuvres
33
Aussi par
8
Membres
1,713
Popularité
#14,989
Évaluation
½ 3.6
Critiques
35
ISBN
184
Langues
2
Favoris
2

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