Jo Oliver Jo Oliver i(A114350 works by)
Born: Established: 1960 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Jo Oliver has worked as a children's librarian. In 2004, she was awarded the Australian Library and Information Association's Marjorie Cotton Award for outstanding contribution to children and youth library services.

Oliver has used a range of printmaking techniques for her children's books, particularly the linocut. Her children's books have been commended by the Children's Book Council of Australia, and she was shortlisted for the Crichton Award in 2009.

In 2020, she released a biography of Jessie Traill.

Sources include New Frontier Publishing website, Australian Scholarly Publishing, Lateral Learning Speakers Agency.

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Personal Awards

2023 recipient The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence Program
2023 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of artist Yvonne Boyd, wife of Arthur Boyd
2021 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for a biography of Australian modernist artist Adelaide Perry
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Jessie Traill : A Biography Melbourne : Australian Scholarly Publishing , 2020 18424947 2020 single work biography

'This biography explores the remarkable life of Jessie Traill – artist, traveller, humanitarian and independent spirit. From the ten-year-old who first met Tom Roberts painting on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, to a student of Frederick McCubbin and etchers John Mather and Frank Brangwyn, Jessie developed her professional skills. She interrupted her career to work as a voluntary nurse in France during World War I, later raising funds for and revisiting war-torn Europe. She also became one of Australia’s most outstanding etchers, working in a field uncommon for women of her time. Through diary extracts, descriptions of her world travels and personal letters we hear her voice and see through her eyes, beauty, humour and the joys of simple living.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2020 highly commended SWW Book Awards — Non Fiction
y separately published work icon Pilgrim Frenchs Forest : New Frontier , 2008 Z1484654 2008 single work picture book children's

'Pilgrim is the story of a Father and Son sharing precious moments together as they embark on their first fishing trip. Pilgrim is their boat and it was built by the Grandfather, an Anzac. There are memorial references throughout this book which makes it a perfect gift for Anzac Day.'
2009 notable book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
y separately published work icon Pilgrim Frenchs Forest : New Frontier , 2008 Z1484654 2008 single work picture book children's

'Pilgrim is the story of a Father and Son sharing precious moments together as they embark on their first fishing trip. Pilgrim is their boat and it was built by the Grandfather, an Anzac. There are memorial references throughout this book which makes it a perfect gift for Anzac Day.'
2009 notable book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Picture Book of the Year
VIEW ALL AWARDS
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