Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow (born 28 November 1935) is an acclaimed Australian writer.

Life

Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, he attended Guildford Grammar School and University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and University of Leeds. He has also worked on an Aboriginal mission as an anthropologist, used as background for "To the Islands," and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands, where he suffered a severe attack of malaria. He used this experience in "Visitants". For many years he has lived in Suffolk in England, his ancestral county, using traditional tales for the basis of "The Girl Green as Elderflower". He wrote libretti for theatrical works by Peter Maxwell Davies.

His novel "To the Islands" won the Miles Franklin Award in 1958. He was awarded the Patrick White Award in 1979.

Because he is a local writer of some standing, a considerable number of his poems are listed in the State Library of Western Australia on line catalogue [http://henrietta.liswa.wa.gov.au] with indications where they have been anthologised.

elected works

Novels

*"A Haunted Land" 1956
*"The Bystander" 1957
*"To the Islands" 1958 (revised in 1982)
*"Tourmaline" 1963
*"The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea" 1965
*"Visitants" 1979
*"The Girl Green as Elderflower" 1980
*"The Suburbs of Hell" 1984

Poetry

*"Act One" 1957
*"Outrider: Poems 1956-1962" 1962
*"A Counterfeit Silence: Selected Poems of Randolph Stow" 1969

Children's

*"Midnite: The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy" 1967
*"Midnite: The Play" 1978

Opera

*"Eight Songs for a Mad King" 1969, libretto
*"Miss Donnithorne's Maggot" 1974, libretto

External links

* [http://www.geraldton.wa.gov.au/Extranet/LocalHistory/RandolphStow.asp Randolph Stow - Writer]

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