Nick Cave Nick Cave i(A5494 works by) (a.k.a. Nicholas Edward Cave)
Born: Established: 1957 Warracknabeal, Hopetoun - Warracknabeal - Murtoa area, North West Victoria, Victoria, ;
Gender: Male
Expatriate assertion
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BiographyHistory

Cave is a rock musician who has published his lyrics and novels, and collaborated on film screenplays. He moved to first London and then Berlin with his band The Birthday Party in 1980, which disbanded in 1983. In 1984, he formed The Bad Seeds, with whom he made many studio albums.

In 1999 he curated and directed the 1999 Meltdown Festival at South Bank Centre, London.

Cave was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame at the 2007 ARIA Awards, Sydney, New South Wales, Sunday, 28 October 2007.

In late 2007, the Victorian Arts Centre in Melbourne hosted a major retrospective exhibition of his work including his literary, music and personal memorabilia. Other exhibitions related to his work include a 1992-1993 exhibition at The Victorian Arts Centre (now Arts Centre Melbourne) of photographs relating to a Bad Seeds tour of Europe; Stranger Than Kindness: The Nick Cave Exhibition in Copenhagen in June 2020, co-curated by Cave; and an exhibition of Cave's ceramic figures of Satan, at Sara Hildén Art Museum in Finland, from 2022 to 2023.

In 2008, Monash University awarded Cave an honorary Doctorate of Laws.


Australian Writing and Rock Music affiliation: songwriter, lyricist, vocals, piano, guitar, miscellaneous instruments (harmonica).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2017 recipient Order of Australia Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) For distinguished service to the performing arts as a musician, songwriter, author and actor, both nationally and internationally, and as a major contributor to Australian music culture and heritage.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Faith, Hope and Carnage Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2022 24685228 2022 single work autobiography interview

'Drawn from over forty hours of interviews, Faith, Hope and Carnage is a thoughtful book about Nick Cave's inner life over the last six years, a meditation on big ideas including, faith, art, music, grief and much more.

'Created from over forty hours of intimate conversations with Sean O'Hagan, it is a profoundly thoughtful exploration, in Cave's own words, of what really drives his life and creativity.

'The book examines questions of faith, art, music, freedom, grief and love. It draws candidly on Cave's life, from his early childhood to the present day, his loves, his work ethic and his dramatic transformation in recent years.

'From a place of considered reflection, Faith, Hope and Carnage offers ladders of hope and inspiration from a true creative visionary.'  (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Nonfiction Book of the Year
y separately published work icon The Death of Bunny Munro Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2009 Z1552653 2009 single work novel Bunny Munro sells beauty products and the scent of adventure to the lonely housewives of England's south coast. Set adrift by his wife's death he hits the road one last time - with his young son in tow. As Bunny swaggers from door-to-door hawking his wares and feeding his libido, nine-year-old Bunny Junior waits in the car seeking the comfort of his mother's ghost and watching his father self-destruct. Haunted by his appetites, jealous husbands and a serial killer in a devil suit, Bunny Munro is a desperate man. And he's going to die. (from Text Publishing website)
2011 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2010 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
form y separately published work icon The Proposition ( dir. John Hillcoat ) Australia United Kingdom (UK) : Autonomous Jackie O Productions Pictures in Paradise Surefire Film Productions LLP , 2005 Z1216692 2005 single work film/TV thriller western crime (taught in 8 units)

'Set in the 1880s, [The Proposition] opens in the middle of a frenzied gunfight between the police and a gang of outlaws. Charlie Burns ... and his brother Mikey are captured by Captain Stanley... Together with their psychopathic brother Arthur, ... they are wanted for a brutal crime. Stanley makes Charlie a seemingly impossible proposition in an attempt to bring an end to the cycle of bloody violence.'


Source: Nick Cave's website (http://www.nickcaveandthebadseeds.com/)

Sighted: 20/09/2005

2006 inaugural winner Gucci Award
2005 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Original Screenplay
2005 won IF Awards Inside Film Awards Best Feature Film
2005 nominated IF Awards Inside Film Awards Best Script
2005 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Original Screenplay
2005 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia Best Film
2005 nominated Australian Film Institute Awards Best Film
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