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Title
Date(s)
- 1993-2006 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
11 boxes.
Context area
Name of creator
Biographical history
Craig Munro was born in Brisbane in 1950. He was a publishing editor for over twenty-five years, but began work as a journalist. Munro was the publishing manager for the University of Queensland Press from 1983 to 2005, and was their first fiction editor. He has published in a wide range of books, newspapers and journals. Munro's biography of P.R. Stephensen won the Fellowship of Australian Writers, A.W. Herb Thomas Literary Award and the Walter McCrae Russell Award for literary scholarship. He has also received the Barbara Ramsden Award for Editing in 1985, and the Churchill Fellowship in 1991 to study publishing in Canada and the United States. Munro was also the founding chair of the Queensland Writers’ Centre.
Name of creator
Biographical history
Australian author, editor and publisher of, and on, children's literature and publishing itself.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Papers relating to the book "Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005", 1993-2006
Collection alternatively titled as: Craig Munro Collection.
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Content and structure area
Scope and content
Papers relating to the commissioning, editing and publication of Paper Empires: A History of the Book in Australia 1946-2005, edited by Craig Munro and Robyn Sheahan-Bright. Manuscripts of chapters submitted or included in the work; manuscripts and page proofs of the complete work. Paper Empires is the third volume of the History of the Book in Australia series, published by the University of Queensland Press as part of the History of the Book in Australia (HOBA) Project.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
Copyright applies.
Language of material
- English
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Finding aids
Uploaded finding aid
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Name access points
- Munro, Craig, 1950- (Subject)
- Sheahan-Bright, Robyn (Subject)
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Status
Migrated
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.