Randolph Stow
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Julian Randolph Stow (born 28 November 1935) is an acclaimed Australian writer.
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[edit] Life
Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, he attended Guildford Grammar School and University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and University of Leeds. He has also worked on an Aboriginal mission as an anthropologist, used as background for To the Islands, and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands, where he suffered a severe attack of malaria. He used this experience in Visitants. For many years he has lived in Suffolk in England, his ancestral county, using traditional tales for the basis of The Girl Green as Elderflower. He wrote libretti for theatrical works by Peter Maxwell Davies.
His novel To the Islands won the Miles Franklin Award in 1958. He was awarded the Patrick White Award in 1979.
Because he is a local writer of some standing, a considerable number of his poems are listed in the State Library of Western Australia on line catalogue [1] with indications where they have been anthologised.
[edit] Selected works
[edit] Novels
- A Haunted Land 1956
- The Bystander 1957
- To the Islands 1958 (revised in 1982)
- Tourmaline 1963
- The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea 1965
- Visitants 1979
- The Girl Green as Elderflower 1980
- The Suburbs of Hell 1984
[edit] Poetry
- Act One 1957
- Outrider: Poems 1956-1962 1962
- A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems of Randolph Stow 1969
[edit] Children's
- Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy 1967
- Midnite: The Play 1978
[edit] Opera
- Eight Songs for a Mad King 1969, libretto
- Miss Donnithorne's Maggot 1974, libretto
[edit] External links
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| NAME | Stow, Randolph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Contemporary Australian novelist and poet |
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| DATE OF BIRTH | 28 November 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Geraldton, Western Australia, Australia |
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