Thomas William Shapcott ( born Thomas William Shapcott ; March 21, 1935 , Ipswich , Queensland , Australia ) - Australian writer , poet , playwright , librettist; publisher and teacher .
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Biography
Together with his twin brother, born a day earlier, he attended the Isuich Grammar School ("Ipswich Grammar School"). He left school at the age of 15 and worked in his father's accounting business, and received his specialty as an accountant in 1961 .
In 1967 he graduated from the art department of the University of Queensland [2] .
Schappcott's first creative hobby was composing. At the age of 19, he wrote a number of musical works, but he pulled away from music when he discovered that the string quartet that he wrote was an unconscious plagiarism of Ernest Bloch’s chamber work [3] . After that, he worked as a tax accountant, a profession to which he devoted 27 years of his life.
Thomas Schappcott was director of the Australian Council's Board Literature for 7 years and executive director of the National Book Council between 1992 and 1997 . He was a professor of creative writing at the University of Adelaide [4] .
Member of the Order of Australia since 1989 [5] , in 2000 Thomas Shepcott was awarded the Patrick White Literary Prize ; he is also the recipient of several other regional, national and international prizes and awards, in particular the Canadian-Australian Literary Award (Canada-Australia Literary Award, 1978 ), the Wesley Michelle Wright Prize for Poetry, 1996 . and others.
Creativity
- Poetry collections
- Time on Fire (1961)
- The Mankind Thing (1964)
- Sonnets 1960-1963 (1964)
- A Taste of Salt Water: Poems (1967)
- Inwards to the Sun: Poems (1969)
- Fingers at Air: Experimental Poems 1969 (1969)
- Interim Report: some poems 1970/71 (1971)
- Begin with Walking (1972)
- Two Voices: Poems (1973) with Margaret Shapcott
- Shabbytown Calendar (1975)
- Seventh Avenue Poems (1976)
- Selected Poems (1978)
- Turning Full Circle (1979)
- Stump and Grape and Bopple-Nut (1981)
- Welcome! (1983)
- Travel Dice (1987)
- Selected Poems 1956-1988 (1989)
- In the Beginning (1990)
- The City of Home (1995)
- The Sun's Waste is Our Energy (1998)
- Cities in Exile (1998)
- Chekhov's Mongoose (2000)
- Music Circus and Other Poems (2004)
- Adelaide Lunch Sonnets (2006)
- The City of Empty Rooms (2006)
- The Book of Hanging Gardens (2009)
- Part of Us (2010)
- At Marcoola (2011)
- Novels
- The Birthday Gift (1982)
- White Stag of Exile (1984)
- Hotel Bellevue (1986)
- The Search for Galina (1989)
- Mona's Gift (1993)
- Theater of Darkness (1998) [6]
- Spirit Wrestlers (2004)
- Storybooks
- Limestone and Lemon Wine: Stories (1988)
- What You Own: Stories (1991)
- Gatherers and Hunters: Stories (2011)
- Teen literature
- Holiday of the Ikon (1984)
- Flood Children (1981)
- Documentary prose
- Writers Interviews with the Camera (1989)
- Biting the Bullet: A Literary memoir (1990)
- Twins in the Family: Interviews with Australian Twins (2001)
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Australian Poets and their Works, by W. Wilde, Oxford University Press, 1996
- ↑ Jason Steger, “Best wishes from Patrick White: $ 20,000 prize for a man of letters,” “ Sydney Morning Herald, ” November 11, 2000 , p. 5 .
- ↑ “The Age,” Easter Edition 25-26 March 2005, “Review,” p. 16
- ↑ It's an Honor
- ↑ National Library of Australia Theater of darkness: Lillian Nordica as opera ; Retrieved 11 August 2013