The Australian novels The River Kings and Conquest of the River were made into a miniseries in 1991. Who was the books' author?
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The River Kings The River Kings is a 1991 Australian mini series based on the novels The River Kings and Conquest of the River by Max Fatchen. It had a budget of $3.5 million.
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Max Fatchen Maxwell Edgar "Max" Fatchen, AM (3 August 192014 October 2012) was an Australian journalist and children's writer.
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Robyn Davidson Robyn Davidson (born 6 September 1950) is an Australian writer best known for her book "Tracks", about her 1,700-mile trek across the deserts of west Australia using camels. Her career of travelling and writing about her travels has spanned over 30 years.
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Victor Kelleher Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian author. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a PhD in English Literature from The University of South Africa has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Alison, and was Associate Professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.
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Bernard O'Reilly (author) Bernard O'Reilly (1903–1975) (born Alfonso Bernard O'Reilly) was an Australian author and bushman of Irish descent. He was born and raised in the Blue Mountains about north-west of Sydney and later moved to the McPherson Range near Beaudesert in South East Queensland, Australia. He is part of the family that established the O'Reilly's Guesthouse in the Lamington Plateau.
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Our Sunshine Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel about Ned Kelly by Australian writer Robert Drewe.
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Wilga Rivers Wilga Rivers (13 April 1919 – 23 June 2007) was an Australian academic and writer. She was a professor emerita of romance languages and literature at Harvard University. She had previously taught at University of Illinois and Monash University. Earlier she taught at Essendon High School in Victoria, Australia. She studied and wrote about teaching languages. Rivers was an early supporter of the change from the audiolingual method to more communicative and interactive language teaching. Rivers was born in Melbourne and died in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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Patricia Wrightson Patricia Wrightson OBE (19 June 1921 – 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books. Her reputation came to rest largely on her magic realist titles. Her books, including the widely praised "The Nargun and The Stars" (1973), were among the first Australian books for children to draw on Australian Aboriginal mythology. Her 27 books have been published in 16 languages.
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The River Why The River Why is a 1983 novel by David James Duncan. While it initially starts off as a fishing story, "The River Why" turns into the story of a young person struggling to come to grips with the modern world.
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Murray Bail Murray Bail (born 22 September 1941) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non-fiction.
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Into the River Into the River is a novel by Ted Dawe, featuring a coming-of-age story set in New Zealand, and intended for a young adult audience. It was awarded the Margaret Mahy Book of the Year prize and also won the top prize in the Young Adult Fiction category at the 2013 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards. It was briefly banned from sale and supply in New Zealand.
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Kate Constable Kate Constable (born 1966) is an Australian author. Her first novel was "The Singer of All Songs", the first in the "Chanters of Tremaris" trilogy. It was later followed by "The Waterless Sea" and "The Tenth Power".
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Bruce Beaver Bruce Victor Beaver (14 February 1928 – 17 February 2004) was an Australian poet and novelist.
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Where the Rivers Flow North Where the Rivers Flow North is a 1978 novel, written by Howard Frank Mosher, and a 1993 film, based on the novel and directed by Jay Craven.
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Dynasty (Australian TV series) Dynasty is an Australian TV series that aired from 7 October 1970 to 6 October 1971, based on the 1967 Tony Morphett novel of the same name.
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Morris West Morris Langlo West AO (26 April 19169 October 1999) was an Australian novelist and playwright, best known for his novels "The Devil's Advocate" (1959), "The Shoes of the Fisherman" (1963) and "The Clowns of God" (1981). His books were published in 27 languages and sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Each new book he wrote after he became an established writer sold more than one million copies.
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A Landing on the Sun A Landing On The Sun is a 1991 novel by Michael Frayn, and was the Sunday Express Book of the Year. It was adapted into a 1994 TV movie with a screenplay written by the author.
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The Great World The Great World is a 1990 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author David Malouf.
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Peter Carey (novelist) Peter Philip Carey AO (born 7 May 1943) is an Australian novelist. Carey has won the Miles Franklin Award three times and is frequently named as Australia's next contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Carey is one of only four writers to have won the Booker Prize twice—the others being J. G. Farrell, J. M. Coetzee and Hilary Mantel. Carey won his first Booker Prize in 1988 for "Oscar and Lucinda", and won for the second time in 2001 with "True History of the Kelly Gang". In May 2008 he was nominated for the Best of the Booker Prize.
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Lindsay Armstrong Lindsay Armstrong is a popular South African-Australian writer of over 65 romance novels. She published her novels in Mills & Boon's since 1981. Armstrong was born and raised in South Africa, and married a New Zealand-born man who worked in West Africa. Their first three children were born in South Africa, they had other two children, one in London, England, and one in Australia. She currently lives in Australia.
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Geoffrey Bingham Geoffrey Cyril Bingham, {'1': ", '2': ", '3': ", '4': "} (6 January 1919 – 3 June 2009) was an Australian author and cleric in the Anglican Church of Australia.
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Alan Lucas Alan Lucas (born 1936) is an Australian yachtsman and writer of boat cruising guides and other books relating to life on the sea. His "Cruising the Coral Coast" was the second cruising guide to be published in Australia.