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Rodney Hall


Born
in Solihull, The United Kingdom
November 18, 1935

Genre
Historical Fiction


Born in Solihull, Warwickshire, England, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II and studied at the University of Queensland. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of The Australian. After a period living in Shanghai in the 1980s, Hall returned to Australia, and took up residence in Victoria.

Hall has twice won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal, and has received seven nominations for the prestigious Miles Franklin Award, for which he has twice won ("Just Relations" in 1982 and "The Grisly Wife" in 1994). ...more

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Average rating: 3.6 · 635 ratings · 114 reviews · 67 distinct works â€� Similar authors
A Stolen Season
3.52 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions
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Captivity Captive (Yandilli...
3.57 avg rating — 75 ratings — published 1988 — 14 editions
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Just Relations
3.71 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1982 — 14 editions
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The Island in the Mind
3.89 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1996 — 6 editions
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The Second Bridegroom (Yand...
3.46 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1991 — 9 editions
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Silence
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Vortex
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The Day We Had Hitler Home
3.03 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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The Grisly Wife (Yandilli T...
3.34 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1993 — 6 editions
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A Dream More Luminous than ...
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“It is our fate to give ourselves most lavishly
to those who'd rather not be burdened with the gift”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: poetry
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“an axiom of sorcery: If you come to know yourself
no one else can know you”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: poem, self-knowledge
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“Tomorrow I'll suggest the liar lies against himself
So our condition makes escape impossible?
-- we breathe

and it's moving air that causes stars to twinkle”
― Rodney Hall, The Owner of My Face: New & Selected Poems
tags: lies, stars, the-human-condition
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