Margaret Packham Hargrave
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Margaret Packham Hargrave (born 8 November 1941) is an Australia
n writer. She is the author of Jake's Luck (1994) and A Woman of Air (1996) – winner of the inaugural Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.
with Georgiana Maclean at the NSW Conservatorium of Music concurrently with nursing at Sydney Hospital
. Subsequently, she completed a BA in English and Psychology and MLitt (Middle English
/Chaucer) at the University of New England
(NSW) and a DipEd at Mitchell College
(Bathurst, NSW) and had a career first as a Nursing academic, during which time her research paper 'Literature in the Nursing Course' was published in The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Autumn, 1986. She then became a teacher of secondary English before committing herself to writing.
Packham has had numerous short stories and poems published in Westerly, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Cleo, Grass Roots and Matilda. A book of her poems (Midnight Fugue, Saturday Centre Press) appeared in 1983.
She has recently developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film (A Difficult Patient) produced and directed by Tony Chu of NAFA Productions was exhibited at the Cannes Short Film Corner, 2009. Original music composed by Nathan Chan.
In September, 2008, she was elected to Sutherland Shire Council as one of the team of Shire Watch Independents.
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
n writer. She is the author of Jake's Luck (1994) and A Woman of Air (1996) – winner of the inaugural Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.
Life and career
Margaret Packham was born in Sydney, Australia and attended Sutherland High School. She studied voice with Raymond Beatty and violaViola
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with Georgiana Maclean at the NSW Conservatorium of Music concurrently with nursing at Sydney Hospital
Sydney Hospital
Sydney Hospital is a major hospital in Sydney, Australia, located on Macquarie Street in the Sydney central business district. It is the oldest hospital in Australia, dating back to 1788, and has been at its current location since 1811. It first received the name Sydney Hospital in 1881.Currently...
. Subsequently, she completed a BA in English and Psychology and MLitt (Middle English
Middle English
Middle English is the stage in the history of the English language during the High and Late Middle Ages, or roughly during the four centuries between the late 11th and the late 15th century....
/Chaucer) at the University of New England
University of New England, Australia
The University of New England is an Australian public university with approximately 18,000 higher education students. Its original and main campus is located in the city of Armidale in northern New South Wales....
(NSW) and a DipEd at Mitchell College
Mitchell College
For the North Carolina college formerly known as Mitchell College, see Mitchell Community College.Mitchell College is a liberal arts college located on the banks of the Thames River, in New London, Connecticut, USA...
(Bathurst, NSW) and had a career first as a Nursing academic, during which time her research paper 'Literature in the Nursing Course' was published in The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Autumn, 1986. She then became a teacher of secondary English before committing herself to writing.
Packham has had numerous short stories and poems published in Westerly, Meanjin, The Sydney Morning Herald, Cleo, Grass Roots and Matilda. A book of her poems (Midnight Fugue, Saturday Centre Press) appeared in 1983.
She has recently developed an interest in screenwriting and her first short film (A Difficult Patient) produced and directed by Tony Chu of NAFA Productions was exhibited at the Cannes Short Film Corner, 2009. Original music composed by Nathan Chan.
In September, 2008, she was elected to Sutherland Shire Council as one of the team of Shire Watch Independents.
Short stories
- 'The Sound of Crying', Cleo, August, 1974
- 'The Chiffionier', Westerly (4), 1988
- 'Domestica', Westerly (1), 1989
- 'Small Fame', Westerly(4), 1989
- 'My Sister's Memory', Meanjin (1), 1990
Poetry
- Midnight Fugue, Saturday Centre Books, 1983. (A collection of own work)
- Anthologised in: Poets' Choice, 1977; Holes in the Evening (1982), Fat Possum Press; and That Moon-Filled Urge (1985), Kardoorair Press.
Novels
- Jake's Luck (1994) Allen & Unwin
- A Woman of Air (1996) Vintage/Random House. Recipient of Elle/Random House Fiction Prize.
Articles
- 'A Tale of Two Lives', Family Circle, June, 2004 (Writing as Inez Frazer)
- 'New Horizons: Literary Studies in the Nursing Course', The Australian Journal of Advanced Nursing, Vol. 3 No. 1 (1985), cited in Begley, Ann-Marie, 'Literature and Poetry: Pleasure and Practice', International Journal of Nursing Practice (2), December, 1996
External links
- http://pro.imdb.com/title/tt1482970/
- http://pro.imdb.com/name/nm2838920/maindetails