THE NRB QUIZ Answer ten Australian literature questions for a 2012 prize-winning book
For a copy of Paul D Carter’s 2012 Australian/Vogel’s Award-winning book Eleven Seasons – or just for fun – send us your answers via ‘Leave a Comment’. The earliest correct entry wins. Good luck!
1. George Johnston wrote the iconic Australian novel My Brother Jack. What was the title of the sequel?
2. Which of Patrick White’s novels was based on the experiences of Eliza Fraser?
3. Who wrote The Honey Flow?
4. Name the poet and the poem that inspired John Olsen’s mural in the north foyer of the Sydney Opera House?
5. Dorothy Hewett married another writer. What was his name?
6. What is the title of the first book in Frank Moorhouse’s Edith trilogy?
7. In which Sydney suburb did the reputed model for Charles Dickens’s character Miss Havisham live?
8. Brent of Bin Bin was better known as …?
9. Who wrote: ‘I am an urban, beachside Blackfella, a concrete Koori with Westfield Dreaming, and I apologise to no-one’?
10. Who won the first Australian/Vogel’s Award in 1980?
1. Clean Straw for Nothing
2. A Fringe of Leaves
3. Kylie Tennant
4. Kenneth Slessor, Five Bells
5. Merv Lilley
6. Grand Days
7. Newtown
8. Miles Franklin
9. Anita Heiss
10. Archie Weller, The Day Of The Dog
This was the first correct answer. Congratulations Lisa, you’ve won the book!
Thank you! I’ll link back here when I review it on my blog *smile*
The question about Dorothy Hewitt has an alternative answer. Long before her marriage to Merv Lilly, Hewitt was married to Perth lawyer and writer Lloyd Davies, who had published 2 collections of short stories, a novel, a biography and a controversial polemic “In Defence of My Family”.
The latter was his justification for suing Hewitt for defamation over her autobiography “Wild Card”, which was published many years after her marriage to Davies ended. The institution of defamation proceedings by one writer against another was not well received by many of their contemporaries and Davies pointed out in that book that he was particularly hurt by disparaging comments Hewitt made about the child of Davies and the woman he married after his marriage to Hewitt ended. These tasteless and cruel comments focused on the serious physical disability that this child suffered.
Like so many writers in Australia, Davies made insignificant income therefrom. His income from the law was also modest, as he spent his career working as a lawyer for the Aboriginal Legal Service in Perth, although his service to the Aboriginal people was ultimately recognised with the Order of Australia Medal.
Tom Kelly
Thanks, Tom. But the winning entry still stands as no one offered this as an an alternative answer.