'Hilder, the pet' [short story] (unpublished) (undated)
- UQFL164-Series B-Subseries 30
- Subseries
- 1973?
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Photocopy of unpublished short story by Peter Carey, returned to him by Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.
'Hilder, the pet' [short story] (unpublished) (undated)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Photocopy of unpublished short story by Peter Carey, returned to him by Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd.
'Off Route 14' [short story] (unpublished) (1996)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Five drafts, 2nd to 5th, Apr to Oct 1996, all signed by Peter Carey.
First line of the story begins 'When I was just three days old my father...' (unpublished) (undated)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Two draft for story, 2 leaves, undated.
'War crimes' [screenplay] (1988-1989) (unpublished)
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Screenplay by Peter Carey and Bill Bennett. Based on a short story by Peter Carey. Clean and annotated copies of both 1st and 2nd drafts, dated May 1988 and 15 February 1989. Also copy marked: "as presented to producers" and some correspondence dated 1988-1989.
Carey, Peter, 1943-
Correspondence from 1991 to 1994.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Correspondence, book jackets, publicity material, letters from readers, critics, friends, publishers, literary agents, students, literary organizations, fellow writers, professional colleagues and general readers.
Correspondence from 1992 to 1997.
Part of Peter Carey Papers
Correspondence from publishers, journals, literary organisations, readers, school children about The big bazoohley, book covers, invitations, literary agents, other writers, reviews (sent by agents and publishers), personal letters.
Part of Bruce Whiteside Papers
Original pages of a 1988 petition opposing foreign ownership of Australian land. The pages record the names, addresses and signatures of hundreds of petitioners.
Remembering Babylon [Novel] (1993)
Part of David Malouf Papers
Remembering Babylon, set mainly in a mid-nineteenth-century settlement in Queensland, is a compressed epic, centering on the theme of exile and the strange challenge posed by one who, like William Buckley, had lived with the Aborigines, becoming ‘a white black man.’ It was first published in 1993. This subseries consists of six folders of notes, handwritten drafts, three typescripts with many handwritten corrections and additions, publishers’ proofs with many corrections, and a re-typed transcript with corrections throughout.
Every Move You Make [Short Story Collection] (2006)
Part of David Malouf Papers
Short stories, most of which appear in the short story collection Every Move You Make. The short stories that appeared in the publication are: The Valley of Lagoons, Every Move You Make, War Baby, Towards Midnight, Elsewhere, Mrs Porter and the Rock, and The Domestic Cantata. This sub-series contains two files of short story typescript drafts.
Part of David Malouf Papers
Ransom retells the story of the Iliad from books 22 to 24. This subseries has manuscript and typescript drafts, with handwritten emendations. By close textual comparison (including with the published novel), these versions have been put into the order in which they were likely produced.
Literary awards and nominations include:
2010 winner International Awards — John D. Criticos Prize. Awarded to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction - for Ransom.
2010 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal ... presented to David Malouf for his novel Ransom.
2010 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction - for Ransom.
2011 shortlisted International Awards — International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award - for Ransom.