Brenda Niall

Dr Brenda Niall AO (born 1930) is an Australian biographer, literary critic and journalist. She is particularly noted for her work on Australia's well-known Boyd Family of artists and writers. She was educated at the Genazzano FCJ College, in Kew, Victoria, and the University of Melbourne..

In June 2004 she was awarded the Order of Australia for ‘services to Australian literature, as an academic, biographer and literary critic'.

Publications

* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1176180 Brenda Niall, "Martin Boyd" (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1974).]
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2527385 Brenda Niall, "Martin Boyd" (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1977).] Revised edition.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2811558 Brenda Niall, "Seven little billabongs: the world of Ethel Turner and Mary Grant Bruce" (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1979).] Republished in 1982.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2759763 Brenda Niall assisted by Frances O'Neill, "Australia through the looking-glass: children's fiction 1830-1980" (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1984).] Republished in 1987.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2037564 Brenda Niall, "Martin Boyd, a life" (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 1988).] Republished in 1989 and 1990.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn328895 Brenda Niall, "Georgiana: a biography of Georgiana McCrae, painter, diarist, pioneer" (Carlton South, Vic.: Melbourne University Press at the Miegunyah Press, 1994).] Republished in 1996.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1759210 Brenda Niall, Ian Britain and Pamela Williams (eds.), "The Oxford book of Australian schooldays" (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1997).] Republished in 1998.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2031072 Brenda Niall and John Thompson (eds.), "The Oxford book of Australian letters" (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998).] Republished in 1999.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1352569 Brenda Niall, "Jane Austen by Claire Tomalin" (Melbourne: Dept. of Discussion Services, Council of Adult Education, 1999).]
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat74185 Brenda Niall, "The Boyds: a family biography" (Victoria, Australia: Miegunyah Press, Melbourne University Press, 2002).] Republished in 2003.
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3092135 Brenda Niall, "Martin Boyd: a life" (New Edition) (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2004).]
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3411305 Brenda Niall, "Brenda Niall on Arthur Boyd" (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Publishing, 2005)] .
* [http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3308603 Brenda Niall, "Judy Cassab: a portrait" (Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 2005)] .
*Brenda Niall, "Life Class" (Carlton, Vic.: Melbourne University Press, 2007).

Awards and Nominations

* 2001 - was awarded the Centenary Medal [ [http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1126928&search_type=quick&showInd=true] , 27 June, 2007] for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of Australian literature.
* 2002 - Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, Non-Fiction Book Award for "The Boyds: A Family Biography"
* 2004 - was awarded the Officer of the Order of Australia (OA) [ [http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=1056778&search_type=quick&showInd=true] , 27 June, 2007] for service to Australian literature as an academic, biographer and literary critic.

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