Barry Hill (born 1943) is an Australian historian, writer, and academic.[1]
Barry Hill | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1943 Melbourne, Victoria |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1966- |
| Notable awards | 1990 Anne Elder Award; 1991 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award - Non-Fiction; 1994 New South Wales Premier's Literary Award - Poetry; 2004 National Biography Award |
He has written poetry, fiction, non-fiction, and libretti. He is known for his biography of anthropologist Ted Strehlow, called Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession, published in 2002.
Hill was born in Melbourne.[2]
He studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining his Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Education (BEd) and a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and from there went to London, where he gained his Master of Arts (MA) degree from the University of London.[1]
Hill has worked in both Melbourne and London. In London he worked for the Times Literary Supplement.[1]
In 1975 Hill became a full-time writer. As of 2008[update] he was poetry editor of The Australian newspaper.[2]
Hill was part of the cast in the first public performance of Kenneth G. Ross's important Australian play Breaker Morant: A Play in Two Acts, presented by the Melbourne Theatre Company at the Melbourne Athenaeum on 2 February 1978.[3]
Hill has produced performance works for radio, including Desert Canticles, that premiered on ABC Radio on 5 February 2001.[4][5] Hill is quoted as saying the piece was inspired by the following:
"Desert Canticles arises out of a marriage, a decade of travelling, and some years writing the literary biography of T.G.H. Strehlow out of Central Australia. I was writing my own poems out of love and the landscape, while trying to fathom Strehlow's great achievement in Songs of Central Australia. So the notion of translation as a metaphor for relationship – with place, with others, and with songs of different cultures (Hebraic, Buddhist, and Aboriginal) became a natural one upon which to thread a radio work."[4]
- 1991 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction, for Sitting In[6]
- 1994 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Ghosting William Buckley[7]
- 2003 Victorian Premier's Literary Award Non-Fiction award for Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession[8]
- 2004 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards NSW Premier's Biennial Prize for Literary Scholarship for Broken Song: T.G.H. Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession[9]
- 2004 Victorian Premier's Literary Award, the Alfred Deakin Prize for an Essay Advancing Public Debate for The Mood We're In: circa Australia Day 2004[10]
- 2004 National Biography Award for Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession[11]
- 2004 Tasmania Pacific Bicentenary History Award for Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession[12]
- 2005 Victorian Community History Awards for Best Print/Publication, with and the Borough of Queenscliffe, for The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe[13]
- 2012 Shortlisted for 2012 Forward Prize for Naked Clay[14]
Hill is married to Rose Bygrave, a member of the band Goanna, and lives in Queenscliffe, Victoria.[15]
- Poetry
- Raft: Poems 1983–1990 (Penguin, 1990)
- Ghosting William Buckley (Heinemann, 1993)
- The Inland Sea (Salt Publishing, 2001)
- Necessity: Poems 1996–2006 (soi3 modern poets, 2007)
- As We Draw Ourselves (Five Islands Press, 2008)
- Lines for Birds (UWA, 2011)
- Naked Clay (Shearsman, 2012)
- Kind Fire (Arcadia, 2020)
- Short stories
- A Rim of Blue (McPhee Gribble, 1978)
- Headlocks & Other Stories (McPhee Gribble, 1983)
- Novels
- The Schools (Penguin, 1977)
- Near the Refinery (McPhee Gribble, 1980)
- The Best Picture (McPhee Gribble, 1988)
- Non-fiction
- Sitting In (Heinemann, 1991)
- The Rock: Travelling to Uluru (Allen & Unwin, 1994)
- The Enduring Rip: A History of Queenscliffe (MUP, 2004)
- Essays
- The Mood We're In: circa Australia Day 2004. Overland 77.
- Biography
- Broken Song: T G H Strehlow and Aboriginal Possession (Knopf-Random House 2002)
- Libretti
- The Dark (Southern Cross University – University Library Lismore collection, 1999)[16]
- Desert Canticles, Veronica Dobson (performer), Elena Kats-Chernin (composer) (Australian Music Centre, 2001)
- Song of Songs, music by Andrew Schultz (Australian Music Centre)
- Love Strong as Death: a New Song of Songs, composer Andrew Schultz, performed at 'The Studio', The Sydney Opera House, May 2004[2]
- Political philosophy
- Peacemongers 2014
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