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Kylie Tennant


Born
Manly, Sydney, Australia
Genre
Literature & Fiction


Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912. In 1932, she married Lewis Charles Rodd. Her first novel, Tiburon, won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1935. and further novels saw her develop her social-realist style. However, her work is much more complex than suggested by the term social realism, although she conducted first-hand research to give her novels authenticity, once even spending a week in gaol. Her best known novel is The Battlers (1941) which won the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1940 and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941. Other of her works embrace travel, biography, work for children and dramatic works. In 1980 Kylie Tennant was made AO. She died in 1988.
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1935: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize awarded by T ...more

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Average rating: 3.89 · 303 ratings · 52 reviews · 31 distinct works • Similar authors
The Battlers
3.96 avg rating — 115 ratings — published 1941 — 2 editions
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Ride on Stranger
4.05 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1943 — 12 editions
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The Man on the Headland
3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions
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Honey Flow
4.28 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1956 — 5 editions
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Foveaux
3.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1939 — 6 editions
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The Missing Heir: The autob...
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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Tiburon
3.86 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 1935 — 6 editions
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Tell Morning This
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1967 — 2 editions
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All the Proud Tribesmen
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1959 — 11 editions
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Tantavallon
3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1983 — 4 editions
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“She would read anything from a dictionary to a treatise on turnips. Print fascinated her, dazed her, made her good for nothing...Kylie Tennant”
― Kylie Tennant
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