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Notes for my Australian Writers "Stub of the Week" - Blanche d'Alpuget

 * 1992 film Turtle Beach (or The Killing Beach) starring greta scacchi, joan chen and jack thompson based on her novel.


 * Turtle beach (1981) which won the Age book award in 1981

source: http://www.unisa.edu.au/hawkecentre/library/blanche.asp... Blanche d'Alpuget Blanche is a biographer, novelist and essayist and has won a number of awards, both for fiction and non-fiction, including, in 1987, the prestigious inaugural Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature. Blanche has been Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Australian Society of Authors, a board member of the A.C.T. Arts Advisory Council, the Copyright Agency Limited, and the Australian Film Commission. Austcare named her Goodwill Ambassador in 1992, a post which she filled until 1995, writing and speaking about the plight of refugees from Indochina, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan
 * biographical notes

In 1995 she joined the board of Robert J L Hawke and Associates, a business consultancy focussed on, but not restricted to, working in China. In Sydney she is the Patron of Inala, a Rudolph-Steiner inspired school and community for children and adults with severe disabilities.

As an Australian novelist and acclaimed biographer her works include Mediator: a biography of Sir Richard Kirby (1977); Monkeys in the dark (1980); Turtle Beach (1981) which won the Age book award in 1981; Robert J Hawke:a biography (1982);Winter in Jerusalem (1986) and White Eye (1993). Turtle Beach became a feature film in 1992 featuring Greta Scacchi and Jack Thompson and all her novels have been translated into other languages.

source: http://www.afc.gov.au/filmsandawards/filmdbsearch.aspx?view=title&title=BLANCW&type=Co-Productions A look at the life of Blanche d'Alpuget, well-known Australian author. Includes illuminating interviews with Blanche, dramatisations from her novels, sees her at work, conducting a service as a priest and relaxing with her partner Bob Hawke.
 * documentary film made about her by Don Featherstone "Wrestling the Angel - Blanche d'Alpuget"


 * new york times article on "Winter in Jerusalem" found here: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DE2DD153FF93BA35755C0A960948260&sec=&pagewanted=print

http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol3no3_2004/osuri_ordinary.htm
 * critical article on relating to turtle beach found here: