Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship awarded to Stephany Steggall
The 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was awarded to Stephany Steggall last night at Adelaide Writers' Week.
Stephany Steggall is a University of Queensland graduate from the School of English, Media Studies and Art History. She completed an Honours degree with a thesis on the poetry of David Rowbotham. This was followed in 2001 by an MPhil in Australian Literature with a thesis on the poetry of John Blight. Much of Stephany's research for this thesis was based on the John Blight manuscript collection in Fryer Library. She was later awarded a PhD from the University of Queensland for a biographical study of Colin Thiele.
In 2004 Stephany published her first book, a biography of Thiele entitled
Can I Call You
Colin?, and in 2006 her biography of Ivan Southall was
published. She received a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts in
2005 to assist with the writing of a biography of Bruce Dawe. Again, Stephany
drew on Fryer library's resources in researching this work, making extensive
use of the Bruce Dawe
manuscript collection. The book, Bruce Dawe: life
cycle, was published in 2009. Stephany is pictured here at Fryer
Library's launch of this book.
The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established in 2011 to encourage Australian authors to attain a high standard of biography writing and to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951-2011).
Stephany will use the $10,000 prize to write a biography of Thomas Keneally, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark.
-- Cathy Leutenegger.
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