Ruth Park (1917–2010)
Autor(a) de Playing Beatie Bow
About the Author
Ruth Park was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1917. Park began writing early, regularly contributing poems and stories to the New Zealand Herald's children's page, as well as the Auckland Star and overseas newspapers such as the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner. She attended mostrar mais secondary school by means of a National Scholarship. she was offered a copyholder's job in the proofreading department of the Auckland Star. Park met and married D'Arcy Niland and after their marriage the Nilands travelled through the outback of Australia for a time before settling in Surry Hills in Sydney where they earned a living writing full-time. While still in the outback they received news that the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) had accepted a series of radio plays as well as Park's stories about a mouse for the Children's Session, thus beginning their long association with ABC radio. Park has written books for children of all ages; novels for adults; well-researched documentaries of place; scripts for film, television and, in greatest number, radio; articles for journals and newspapers, especially for the women's page of the Sydney Morning Herald; three autobiographies; plays and short stories; a biography of Les Darcy and an informative guide to Australia for German readers. Much of her work has been translated into other languages, some novels have been produced for stage, television and film and she has won numerous awards. Her most famous books are the trilogy of Missus, The Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange, along with Swords and Crowns and Rings which won the Miles Franklin Award in 1977. She passed away in 2010. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Ruth Park
Associated Works
A Century of Children's Ghost Stories: Tales of Dread and Delight (1995) — Contribuidor — 27 exemplares
Goodbye to Romance: Stories by New Zealand and Australian Women Writers, 1930-1988 (1989) — Contribuidor — 10 exemplares
Reader's Digest Auswahlbücher 77: Eins für Frost und Zwei für Feuer / Meine Nachbarn die Affen / Der Schakal / Das… (1973) 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Park, Rosina Ruth Lucia
- Data de nascimento
- 1917-08-24
- Data de falecimento
- 2010-12-14
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- New Zealand (birth)
Australia - Local de nascimento
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Local de falecimento
- Mosman, New South Wales, Australia
- Locais de residência
- Norfolk Island, Australia
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Te Kuiti, New Zealand - Educação
- Auckland University
- Ocupações
- journalist
novelist
author - Relações
- Niland, D'Arcy (husband)
Champion, Rafe (son-in-law)
Niland, Kilmeny (daughter)
Niland, Deborah (daughter)
Champion, Tom Niland (grandson) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Order of Australia (Member, 1987)
Membros
Críticas
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Female Author (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 67
- Also by
- 7
- Membros
- 3,339
- Popularidade
- #7,651
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Críticas
- 53
- ISBN
- 292
- Línguas
- 8
- Marcado como favorito
- 2
Reading it as an adult I have a completely different appreciation of it.
I found it to be an easy, quick read. The events unfolded much faster given that my grown up brain was able to digest the themes of supernatural time travel, period English language, brothels and complicated emotional feelings much easier.
I still like Abigail and still found Beatie to be a little brat. The story moved at a quick pace and changed enough to keep you interested. I also appreciated the ending despite it's sappiness and that it 'tied everything up neatly'.
Upon re-reading I'm not sure I would give it to a 9 year old to read as it does peek into somewhat adult themes, but then again those themes flew right over my head back then and I loved the book.… (mais)