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- 1983-1989 (Creation)
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Collection
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2 boxes
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Karen Lamb, born 8 December 1956, is an academic and literary critic. She earned a Master of Arts from the University of Queensland in 1991 for a thesis on Peter Carey. Her book, Peter Carey: the genesis of fame, was published in 1992. She edited the anthology Uneasy truces which was published in 1990. Her biography Thea Astley: inventing her own weather was published in 2015 by University of Queensland Press and won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-fiction. She delivered the second annual Fryer Lecture in Australian Literature in 2016.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers, 1983-1989
Collection alternatively titled as: Karen Lamb Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Research material on Peter Carey, correspondence with Barbara Hanrahan, material relating to publication of Uneasy Truces.
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Unrestricted access.
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Language of material
- English
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Name access points
- Carey, Peter, 1943- (Subject)
- Hanrahan, Barbara, 1939-1991 (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.