DavidDoesWords
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I do words. I am a freelance writer, published non-fiction author thriller writer and recovering marketer
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined January 2019
Published #onthisday2001 The Constant Gardener #espionage #thriller by British #author John le Carré #novel tells the story of British diplomat Justin Quayle whose activist wife is murdered he discovers international conspiracy between corrupt bureaucrats & pharmaceutical money
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Born #onthisday1981 Alicia Garza American #writer civil rights activist Rolling Stone & The Guardian published editorials 1stbook The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart (2020) debuted Lady Don’t Take No podcast (2020) Co-founded #BlackLivesMatter movement
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Born #onthisday1943 Doris Kearns Goodwin iconic American #author #historian American President #biographer No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The Home Front in World War II won Pulitzer Prize for History (1995) known 4 Team of Rivals (2005) & No Ordinary Time (1994)
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… Fugitives (1989) references the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests & the official backlash to work saw all of Gao Xingjian’s works banned from being performed in China a noted translator of Samuel Beckett & Eugene Io Ionesco #screenwriter + stage director & a celebrated #painter
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Born #onthisday1940 Gao Xingjian Chinese-born French émigré #novelist #playwright #literarycritic awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (2000) pioneered absurdist drama in China Snow Mountain (1990) cleverly mixes literary genres & uses multiple narrative voices Political drama…
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Born #onthisday1939 J. S. Harry Australian #poet one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists political social commentators won Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry Poetry Society's Book of the Year PEN International Lyne Phillips Poetry Prize & Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
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Born #onthisday1854 Alfred Searcy South Australian public servant & #writer based in Darwin (1882 – 1896) In Northern Seas (1905) collected newspaper articles about his period in Northern Territory Reworked In Australian Tropics (1907) & fictionalised in By Flood and Field (1911)
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Born #onthisday1785 Jacob Grimm German #editor of Grimm's Fairy Tales with his brother folklorist & philologist Discoverer of Grimm's law of linguistics author of Deutsche Mythologie (1835) co-author of imposing Deutsche Wörterbuch (1854) co-published Deutsche Sagen (1816 - 18)
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… literary critics the New York Times rated Kafka on the Shore’s 2005 English translation as one of "The 10 Best Books of 2005" #novel also won the World Fantasy Award (2006) incorporates themes of music as a communicative conduit + metaphysics + dreams + fate + the subconscious
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Published #onthisday2006 Kafka on the Shore a 2002 #novel by Japanese #author Haruki Murakami music’s beauty & power as a communicative medium is a central idea two intertwined plots run the narrative back & forth advancing each plotline in alternating chapters well received by…
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Born #onthisday1963 Alex Wheatle MBE British #novelist jailed following 1981 Brixton riot debut #novel Brixton Rock (1999) won London Arts Board New Writers Award adapted for stage Best Known for Crongton Knights (2016) Straight Outta Crongton (2017) one-man play Uprising (2017)
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Born #onthisday1962 Francesca Lia Block American #author debut #novel Weetzie Bat (1989) won Children's Literature Association’s Phoenix Award (2009) best known for 7-book Dangerous Angel series started while a UC Berkeley student translated into Japanese French German + Italian
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Born #onthisday1953 Justin Fleming Australian #NonFiction x 9 #author #playwright #screenwriter x6 barrister works produced & published in Australia US Canada UK Belgium Poland & France Vice-President Australian Writers Guild & Board member Australian National Playwrights' Centre
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…Award for Non-Fiction (1981) + The Age Novel of the Year d'Alpuget’s Turtle Beach (1982) won South Australian Government's Award for Fiction (1982) + Commonwealth Award for Literature – Australasian Division (1987) + The Age Book of the Year Award for Imaginative Writing (1981)
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Born #onthisday1944 Blanche d'Alpuget Australian #novelist #biographer 2nd wife of Bob Hawke 1st #novel #espionage work Monkeys in the dark (1980) known for Hawke biography & The Young Lion quintet winner of Sydney PEN Golden Jubilee award for Fiction (1980) + the NSW Premier’s…
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…counter-culture movement deplored his cult figure status Tolkien served as the Rawlinson & Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and a Fellow of Pembroke College Oxford (1925 – 1945) & Merton Professor of English Language & Literature & Fellow of Merton College Oxford (1945 – 1959)
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Born #onthisday1892 J. R. R. Tolkien OBE English #writer #poet philologist academic & best-selling #author of The Hobbit (1937) + The Lord of the Rings (1954–55) & The Silmarillion (1977) published posthumously applauded resurgence of the #fantasy genre propelled by the 1960s …
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Born #onthisday1870 Ethel Richardson Australian #novelist wrote under the pen name Henry Handel Richardson #author x 7 #novels x 4 #shortstorycollections x 1 #memoir # 2nd #novel The Getting of Wisdom (1910) coming-of-age story admired by H.G. Wells has been continuously in print
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Born #onthisday106BC Cicero Roman scholar philosopher & statesman & prolific #writer inc. treatises on politics philosophy & rhetoric widely considered to be one of Rome's greatest prose stylists & orators #author of 75%+ of the surviving Latin literature spanning his adult life
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… historical drivers of British settlement Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize (1987) & the WH Smith Literary Award (1988) the book is a scholarly & entertaining narrative bringing Australia’s true history to life Hughes was Time magazine’s well-known long-time Australian art critic
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