Biography

Born in Solihull

Solihull

Solihull is a town in the West Midlands of England with a population of 94,753. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is located 9 miles southeast of Birmingham city centre...

, Warwickshire

Warwickshire

Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...

, England

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, Hall came to Australia as a child after World War II

World War II

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 and studied at the University of Queensland

University of Queensland

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 (1971). In the 1960s Hall began working as a freelance writer, and a book and film reviewer. He also worked as an actor, and was often engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane. Between 1967 and 1978 he was the Poetry Editor of The Australian

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. He began publishing poetry in the 1970s and has since published thirteen novels, including Just Relations and The Island in the Mind. He lived in Shanghai for a period in the late 1980s. From 1991-1994, he served as chair of the Australia Council

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Hall lives in Victoria. In addition to a number of literary awards, he has received an Membership of Order of Australia

Order of Australia

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Rodney's memoir "Popeye Never Told You" was launched in May 2010 and was published by Pier 9.

Awards

The Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...	Just Relations, winner 1982
	The Grisly Wife, winner 1994
	Captivity Captive, shortlisted 1989
	The Second Bridegroom, shortlisted 1992
	The Day We Had Hitler Home, shortlisted 2001
	Love Without Hope, shortlisted 2008
Victorian Premier's Literary Award Victorian Premier's Literary Award The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Governmentwith the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry....	Captivity Captive, The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction 1989
The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year The Age Book of the Year Awards are annual literary awards presented by Melbourne's The Age newspaper. The awards were first presented in 1974. Since 1998 they have been presented as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival...	The Island in the Mind, Fiction Prize shortlisted 1996
Australian Literature Society Gold Medal	The Second Bridegroom, winner 1992
	The Day We Had Hitler Home, winner 2001
NBC Banjo Awards	Captivity Captive, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1989
	The Grisly Wife, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1994
	The Island in the Mind, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, shortlisted 1997
FAW Barbara Ramsden Award	Just Relations, Book of the Year winner 1982
FAW ANA Literature Award	Just Relations, winner 1982
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry Grace Leven Prize for Poetry The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual award given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work"...	A Soapbox Omnibus, winner 1973

Novels

• The Ship on the Coin (1972)
• A Place Among People (1975)
• Just Relations
  Just Relations
  Just Relations is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Rodney Hall.The novel won the Miles Franklin Award, the FAW ANA Literature Award, and the FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for the Book of the Year, in 1982.-References:*...
  
  (1982)
• Kisses of the Enemy (1987)
• Captivity Captive (1988)
• The Second Bridegroom (1991)
• The Grisly Wife
  The Grisly Wife
  The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."...
  
  (1993)
• The Island in the Mind (1996)
• The Day We Had Hitler Home
  The Day We Had Hitler Home
  -Reviews:*"The Australian Public Intellectual Network" *"The London Review of Books" *"The Observer" *"Words and Flavours"...
  
  (2000)
• The Last Love Story (2004)
• Love Without Hope
  Love Without Hope
  Love Without Hope is a 2007 novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.- Epigraph :"You are not dying because you are ill. You are dying because you are alive." - Montaigne- Awards and nominations :*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2008: shortlisted...
  
  (2007)

Poetry

• The Climber (1962)
• Penniless Till Doomsday (1962)
• Forty Beads on a Hangman's Rope (1963)
• Eyewitness (1967)
• The Autobiography of a Gorgon (1968)
• The Law of Karma (1968)
• Australia (1970)
• Heaven, In a Way (1970)
• A Soapbox Omnibus (1973)
• Selected Poems (1975)
• Black Bagatelles (1978)
• The Most Beautiful World (1981)
• The Owner of My Face: New and Selected Poems (2002)
• The public turns to its hero (?)

Non-fiction

• Focus on Andrew Sibley (1968)
• J. S. Manifold: An Introduction to the Man and His Work (1978)
• Australia - Image of a Nation 1850-1950 (1983) (the text of a photographic collection)
• Home: Journey Through Australia (1988)

Edited

• New Impulses in Australian Poetry (1968) with Thomas Shapcott
• Australian Poetry 1970 (1970)
• Poems from Prison (1973)
• Australians Beware (1975) (a collection of poems and paintings)
• Voyage into Solitude (1978) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
• The Second Month of Spring (1980) (a collection of Michael Dransfield poetry)
• The Collins Book of Australian Poetry (1981)
• Michael Dransfield Collected Poems (1987)