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Anthony Eaton Anthony Eaton i(24 works by)
Born: Established: 1972
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Papua New Guinea,
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Pacific Region, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Antony Eaton grew up in Perth and the Cocos Islands. He undertook his secondary education in the Perth hills and gained a BA, a Grad. Dip. Ed. and, later, a PhD in creative writing. He has worked as a security guard, sail training instructor, a high-school English and literature teacher and a sessional teacher at university level. Eaton has competed in triathlons and rowing competitions.

Eaton's first novel was published in 2000, and has been followed by two series (The Darklands Trilogy and the Nathan Nuttboard Trilogy) as well as a number of standalone works. His Darklands Trilogy have been shortlisted and awarded in the Aurealis Awards for Australian Speculative Fiction. The final book of the trilogy, Daywards, was released by UQP in March 2010, and was a CBCA notable Australian Children’s book in 2011. He has twice won the Western Australian Premier’s Literary Award for young adult fiction, and twice been awarded an Honour Book award by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. His works have also featured on the International Youth Library’s annual White Ravens catalogue of significant international children’s books.

At the end of 2005 he travelled to Antarctica to research his novel Into White Silence which received critical acclaim, including an Honour Book Prize in the 2009 CBCA awards and a shortlisting in the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards. In late 2011, Random House Australia re-published a literary edition of Into White Silence for the adult marketplace.

In 2017, Eaton was an Associate Professor of Creative Writing and Literary Studies at the University of Canberra, where he researches the contemporary influence of Young Adult fiction upon cultural discourse, among other things. He is also the president of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR), editor of the journal Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature, and an associate member of the Centre for Cultural and Creative Research at the University of Canberra.

Most Referenced Works

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y separately published work icon Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature Alfred R. Mappin (editor), Clare Bradford (editor), see more 1990 Victoria Park : Magpies Magazine , Z792160 1990 periodical (53 issues)

Papers: Explorations into Children's Literature is a peer-reviewed, open-access academic journal about children's literature research. While the scope is international, the journal has a particular emphasis on research and researchers in Australasia and the Pacific. It is the official journal of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (ACLAR).

In it's early history, Papers was co-published as part of Magpies Magazine to provide a forum for discussion on Australian children's literature, aimed at students, teachers, academics and others engaged in the field of children's literature.

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y separately published work icon Into White Silence Anthony Eaton , North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2008 Z1523485 2008 single work novel young adult 'During the winter of 1922, the Exploration Vessel Raven became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing 28 men aboard it through the dark, polar night. Into White Silence tells their story - a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. It captures the terrible, fascinating beauty of Antarctica, both as it was then and is today, and is a journey into the mind of every person who has ever set foot upon those ice-bound shores.' (From the publisher's website.) 5.477226
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y separately published work icon Fireshadow Anthony Eaton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2004 Z1108623 2004 single work novel young adult

'You let your sister burn.

'When Vinnie’s sister is killed, he runs away from the accusing eyes of his father to the isolation of the bush. There, he must answer a question … was it his fault?

'In 1941, German soldier Erich is sent miles away from his family after being captured and interned in an Australian prisoner-of-war camp. Despite everything he’s grown up believing, Erich must learn to co-exist with his sworn enemy and, in doing so, question his father’s expectations that have defined his existence.

'Amid the rain soaked forests of South Western Australia, these two young men’s lives collide across the years, changing them both as they struggle to escape their painful memories of fireshadow.

'Some battles are imposed on us, some fought within.' (Publisher's blurb)

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y separately published work icon Nightpeople Anthony Eaton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2005 Z1217465 2005 single work novel fantasy young adult

'Saria is the last of her kind, the final child to be born in the Darklands, a quarantined expanse of outback desert, contaminated generations earlier by the remote and mysterious Nightpeople. Spirited away at her birth before the Nightpeople could remove her from the genetic pool, Saria, now in her early teens, is called before the Council of Dreamers to be used as a bargaining chip. There she discovers the truth about her own past and that of her people.' - publicity blurb, endmatter, Skyfall

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y separately published work icon Daywards Anthony Eaton , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2010 Z1681337 2010 single work novel fantasy young adult

'When you've run from the past, you have to stand and face the future...

'Dara, her brother Jaran and their cousin Eyna have grown up among the Clan; their lives are peaceful as they eke out an existence in the towering forest below their escarpment home. But when the ghosts of a dead civilisation reach out to haunt them one final time, they and their family must set out, on an unmapped path across a dying land.

'Walking daywards, always into the sun.' Source: www.uqp.uq.edu.au (Sighted 07/04/2010).

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Personal Awards

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Into White Silence North Sydney : Random House Australia , 2008 Z1523485 2008 single work novel young adult 'During the winter of 1922, the Exploration Vessel Raven became trapped in the Antarctic icepack, entombing 28 men aboard it through the dark, polar night. Into White Silence tells their story - a story of a lost past, of a tragic future, of ice, ambition and madness. It captures the terrible, fascinating beauty of Antarctica, both as it was then and is today, and is a journey into the mind of every person who has ever set foot upon those ice-bound shores.' (From the publisher's website.)
2009 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
2009 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Young Adult Book
2009 honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
y separately published work icon Skyfall St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2007 Z1381093 2007 single work novel fantasy young adult Larinan Mann is an outsider, a social oddity. Born in contravention of the rules of his society, into a cold and powerful family, Lari's life seems to have no purpose. But then his only friend draws him unwittingly into the murky terror of the underworld that dwells below his feet, his father unexpectedly inducts him into the inner circle of history's most terrible secret, and Lari's world - and everything he thought he knew about it - is shattered forever. Then he meets Saria, a girl with a destiny looking over her shoulder, and together the two of them must walk into an unknown greater than anything humanity has ever faced...' - back cover
2007 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Young Adults
2007 winner Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction — Young Adult Division — Best Novel
y separately published work icon Nathan Nuttboard : Family Matters St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2006 Z1288201 2006 single work children's fiction children's humour

'Nathan, Gnarly and the Nuttboard family are back again in a sequel to Eaton's popular Nathan Nuttboard: Hits the Beach. Narelle as difficult as ever; Dad still technologically challenged; Mum her usual assertive self; little sister Nadine intrusive and Nathan and friend Gnarly continuing their happy-go-lucky sure to miss-fire antics. What IS new is the arrival of a little known grandfather from Scotland, Fergus McCraigh.

'Self-centred, overbearing, canny, rude, Fergus makes life miserable for all the members of the family. Narelle, the only one of the children to remember a visit to Scotland where she was accused of spoiling Fergus's sporran, already dislikes the man before he dobs her into her parents for being at a pub instead of studying; Nathan is forced to give up his bedroom for Fergus and to share Nadine's together with her thousands of stuffed toy animals. Neither is too happy with the situation. Mum has a history of not getting on with her father, and Dad, well Fergus never forgave him for marrying his daughter and taking her off to Australia.' (Publication summary)
2007 winner West Australian Young Readers' Book Award — Hoffman Award
2006 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize for Writing for Children
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