Nathan Hobby Nathan Hobby i(A18553 works by)
Born: Established: 1981 ;
Gender: Male
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'Nathan Hobby is writing a biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard. It expands on his PhD thesis about her early life, which he recently completed at the University of Western Australia. His novel, The Fur, won the T. A. G. Hungerford Award.' (Westerly 64.2 p.129)

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y separately published work icon The Red Witch : A Biography of Katharine Susannah Prichard Carlton : Miegunyah Press , 2022 23816181 2022 single work biography

'Novelist, journalist and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard won fame for vivid novels that broke new ground depicting distinctly Australian ways of life and work — from Gippsland pioneers and West Australian prospectors to Pilbara station hands and outback opal miners. Her prize-winning debut The Pioneers made her a celebrity but she turned away from jaunty romances to write a trio of inter-war classics, Working Bullocks, Coonardoo and Haxby’s Circus. Heralded in her time as the ‘hope of the Australian novel’, her good friend Miles Franklin called Prichard ‘Australia’s most distinguished tragedian’.

'This biography of a literary giant traces Prichard’s journey from the genteel poverty of her Melbourne childhood to her impulsive marriage to Victoria Cross winner Hugo Throssell, and finally on to her long widowhood as a 'red witch', marked out from society by her loyalty to the Soviet Union and her unconventional ways.

'Through meticulous archival research and historical detective work, Nathan Hobby reveals many unknown aspects of Prichard’s life, including the likely identity of the mysterious lover who influenced her deeply in her twenties, her withdrawal from politics during her remarkable five-year literary peak and an intimate friendship with poet Hugh McCrae. Lively and detailed, The Red Witch is a gripping narrative alert to the drama and tragedy of Prichard’s remarkable life.'' (Publication summary)

2023 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Premier's Prize for Book of the Year Award
y separately published work icon The Fur Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 2004 Z1010961 2004 single work novel young adult fantasy 'Michael Sullivan comes of age on the eve of the new millennium in a small country town in the fur-ravaged western third of Australia. The fur infestation began before he was born: it was always there. Like jungle reclaiming an abandoned city, black plumes of fur burst open cracks in the concrete and soar menacingly over derelict buildings. The state is strictly quarantined from the rest of the country and Michael's burning desire to escape is matched only by his zeal to stay and play his part in making a better world. Which is it to be — escape or revolution?' (Source: publisher's website.)
2002 winner City of Fremantle Hungerford Award
2004 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Young Adults
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