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Thea Astley


Born
in Brisbane, QLD, Australia
August 25, 1925

Died
August 17, 2004

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Thea Astley was one of Australia's most respected and acclaimed novelists. Born in Brisbane in 1925, Astley studied arts at the University of Queensland. She held a position as Fellow in Australian Literature at Macquarie University until 1980, when she retired to write full time. In 1989 she was granted an honorary doctorate of letters from the University of Queensland.

She won the Miles Franklin Award four times - in 1962 for The Well Dressed Explorer, in 1965 for The Slow Natives, in 1972 for The Acolyte and in 2000 for Drylands. In 1989 she was award the Patrick White Award. Other awards include 1975 The Age Book of the Year Award for A Kindness Cup, the 1980 James Cook Foundation of Australian Literature Studies Award for Hunting the Wi ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 2,537 ratings · 332 reviews · 26 distinct works • Similar authors
It's Raining in Mango
3.69 avg rating — 672 ratings — published 1987 — 14 editions
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Drylands
3.81 avg rating — 561 ratings — published 1999 — 17 editions
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A Kindness Cup
3.84 avg rating — 170 ratings — published 1974 — 9 editions
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The multiple effects of rai...
3.89 avg rating — 149 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions
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A Descant for Gossips
3.93 avg rating — 141 ratings — published 1960
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Hunting the Wild Pineapple
3.43 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1979 — 19 editions
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Coda
3.42 avg rating — 116 ratings — published 1994 — 10 editions
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Reaching Tin River
3.45 avg rating — 94 ratings — published 1990 — 9 editions
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The Slow Natives
3.39 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 1965 — 15 editions
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The Acolyte
3.28 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1972 — 9 editions
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“The more you try to be interested in other people, the more you find out about yourself.”
― Thea Astley
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“This morning, that morning, was honeycombed with personal restlessness. Evening swells up in lavender, blue, black in these parts, the twenty-thousand-fathom sea of acceptance and a sort of timeless soothing, only to be worried out of its mind by a scratch-rash epidemic of star-white.”
― Thea Astley, The Acolyte
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“He was hurling words at his shrinking wife like clods or bricks and she was not dodging but receiving them like a willing saint, enduring abuse like a terrible balm.”
― Thea Astley, Drylands
tags: abuse, argument, bitter, words
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