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Kate Grenville, the Glossary

Catherine Elizabeth Grenville (born 1950) is an Australian author.^[1]

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AACTA Award for Best Supporting Actress in Film

The AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role is an accolade given by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA), a non-profit organisation whose aim is to "identify, award, promote, and celebrate Australia's greatest achievements in film and television".

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Allen & Unwin

George Allen & Unwin was a British publishing company formed in 1911 when Sir Stanley Unwin purchased a controlling interest in George Allen & Co.

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Andrew Bovell

Andrew Bovell (born 1962) is an Australian writer for theatre, film and television.

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Anne C. Steinemann

Anne C. Steinemann is an American civil and environmental engineering academic who has specialized chiefly in the fields of "healthy built environments, indoor air quality, consumer product emissions and exposures, drought management, and climate-related hazards", with a focus on engineering and sustainability.

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Aroma compound

An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.

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Australian Book Industry Awards

The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) are publishers' and literary awards held by the Australian Publishers Association annually in Sydney "to celebrate the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers".

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Australian Film Institute

The Australian Film Institute (AFI) was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry.

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Bea Miles

Beatrice Miles (17 September 19023 December 1973) was an Australian eccentric and bohemian rebel. Kate Grenville and Bea Miles are Australian people of English descent.

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Bearded lady

A bearded lady (or bearded woman) is a woman with a naturally occurring beard normally due to the condition known as hirsutism or hypertrichosis.

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Booker Prize

The Booker Prize, formerly the Booker Prize for Fiction (1969–2001) and the Man Booker Prize (2002–2019), is a prestigious literary award conferred each year for the best single work of sustained fiction written in the English language, which was published in the United Kingdom and/or Ireland.

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Bruce Petty

Bruce Leslie Petty (23 November 1929 – 6 April 2023) was an Australian political satirist, sculptor and cartoonist.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the pursuing, establishing and maintaining of control and exploitation of people and of resources by a foreign group.

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Commonwealth Foundation prizes

Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011.

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Convicts in Australia

Between 1788 and 1868 the British penal system transported about 162,000 convicts from Great Britain and Ireland to various penal colonies in Australia.

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Creative Australia

Creative Australia, formerly known as the Australia Council for the Arts and the Australia Council, is the country's official arts council, serving as an arts funding and advisory body for the Government of Australia.

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Creative writing

Creative writing is any writing that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, or technical forms of literature, typically identified by an emphasis on narrative craft, character development, and the use of literary tropes or with various traditions of poetry and poetics.

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Cremorne Girls High School

Cremorne Girls High School, (abbreviation CGHS) is a former high school located on Murdoch Street in the Sydney suburb of Cremorne, New South Wales, Australia.

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District Court of New South Wales

The District Court of New South Wales is the intermediate court in the judicial hierarchy of the Australian state of New South Wales.

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Edinburgh International Festival

The Edinburgh International Festival is an annual arts festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, spread over the final three weeks in August.

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Elizabeth Macarthur

Elizabeth Macarthur (14 August 1766 – 9 February 1850) was an English-born landowner and businesswomen who was wife of John Macarthur.

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Film Australia

Film Australia was a company established by the Government of Australia to produce films about Australia in 1973.

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First Fleet

The First Fleet was a fleet of 11 British ships that took the first British colonists and convicts to Australia.

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Gadigal

The Gadigal, also spelled as Cadigal and Caddiegal, are a group of Aboriginal people whose traditional lands are located in Gadi, on Eora country, the location of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Glenda Adams

Glenda Emilie Adams (née Felton; 30 December 1939 – 11 July 2007) was an Australian novelist and short story writer, probably best known as the winner of the 1987 Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral. Kate Grenville and Glenda Adams are 20th-century Australian novelists, 20th-century Australian women writers, Australian women novelists and writers from Sydney.

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Ken Gee (judge)

Kenneth Grenville Gee QC (17 March 1915 – 20 January 2008) was an Australian judge and barrister.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.

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Library Council of New South Wales

The Library Council of New South Wales is the governing body of the State Library of New South Wales, as described in The Library Act 1939 (NSW).

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Lilian's Story

Lilian's Story is a 1996 Australian film based on a 1985 novel by Australian author Kate Grenville, which was inspired by the life of Bea Miles, a famous Sydney nonconformist.

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Lilian's Story (novel)

Lilian's Story (1985) is a novel by Australian writer Kate Grenville.

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Macquarie University

Macquarie University is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Miles Franklin Award

The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases".

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National Library of Australia

The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the National Library Act 1960 for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people", thus functioning as a national library.

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New South Wales

New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.

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New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards

The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979.

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Order of Australia

The Order of Australia is an Australian honour that recognises Australian citizens and other persons for outstanding achievement and service.

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Peter Carey (novelist)

Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Kate Grenville and Peter Carey (novelist) are 20th-century Australian novelists and Granta people.

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Radio National

Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide public service broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

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Ramona Koval

Ramona Koval (born 1954, Melbourne) is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist. Kate Grenville and Ramona Koval are 21st-century Australian women writers and 21st-century Australian writers.

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Ruth Cracknell

Ruth Winifred Cracknell AM (6 July 1925 – 13 May 2002) was an Australian character and comic actress, comedienne and author, her career encompassing all genres including radio, theatre, television and film. Kate Grenville and Ruth Cracknell are Australian people of English descent.

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Sarah Thornhill

Sarah Thornhill (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kate Grenville.

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Solomon Wiseman

Solomon Wiseman (16 April 1777 - 28 November 1838) was a convict, merchant and ferryman.

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Special Broadcasting Service

The Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) is an Australian hybrid-funded public service broadcaster.

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Subtitles

Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.

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Sue Woolfe

Sue Woolfe (born 15 November 1950) is an Australian author, teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker. Kate Grenville and Sue Woolfe are Australian women novelists.

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Sydney

Sydney is the capital city of the state of New South Wales and the most populous city in Australia.

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Sydney Theatre Company

Sydney Theatre Company (STC) is an Australian theatre company based in Sydney, New South Wales.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, that has been published since 1854.

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The Australian/Vogel Literary Award

The Australian/Vogel Literary Award was an Australian literary award for unpublished manuscripts by writers under the age of 35.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Idea of Perfection

The Idea of Perfection is a 1999 novel by Australian author Kate Grenville.

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The Lieutenant (novel)

The Lieutenant is a historical novel by Kate Grenville, published in 2008. The novel loosely follows historical facts based on the experiences of William Dawes, an officer of the Royal Marines who was on the 1788 First Fleet from England to the New South Wales colony. His position was astronomer, though he took an opportunity to observe and record the language of the Australian Aboriginal people (Eora) of the immediate area.

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The Secret River

The Secret River is a 2005 historical novel by Kate Grenville about an early 19th-century Englishman transported to Australia for theft.

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Toni Collette

Toni Collette (born Collett; 1 November 1972) is an Australian actress.

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Traps (1994 film)

Traps is a 1994 Australian film directed by Pauline Chan and starring Saskia Reeves, Jacqueline McKenzie, and Sami Frey.

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University of Colorado

The University of Colorado (CU) is a system of public universities in Colorado.

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University of Colorado Boulder

The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder, CU, or Colorado) is a public research university in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

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University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales (UNSW), also known as UNSW Sydney, is a public research university based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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University of Sydney

The University of Sydney (USYD) is a public research university in Sydney, Australia.

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University of Technology Sydney

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is a public research university located in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.

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Victorian Premier's Literary Awards

The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry.

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Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction

The Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction, formerly known as the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award.

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Walter Scott Prize

The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is a British literary award founded in 2010.

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William Dawes (British Marines officer)

William Nicolas Dawes (1762–1836) was an officer of the British Marines, an astronomer, engineer, botanist, surveyor, explorer, abolitionist, and colonial administrator.

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William Edward Hanley Stanner

William Edward Hanley Stanner CMG (24 November 19058 October 1981), often cited as W.E.H. Stanner, was an Australian anthropologist who worked extensively with Indigenous Australians.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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World Book Club

World Book Club is a radio programme on the BBC World Service.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Grenville

Also known as A Room Made of Leaves.

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