John O'Grady
John Patrick O'Grady (9 October 1907 - 14 January 1981) was an Australian writer. His works include the comic novel They're a Weird Mob (1957) and the poem The Integrated Adjective, sometimes known as Tumba-bloody-rumba.
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[edit] Pseudonym
O'Grady chose to write under a variety of pseudonyms, most famously as Nino Culotta for his books They're a Weird Mob, Cop This Lot, Gone Fishin ', and Gone Gougin' . Other examples include No Kava For Johnny, which is published under O'Grady's name, but contains a preface from the author claiming that the book had in fact been written by the eponymous character, Johnny.
[edit] Works
O'Grady's numerous works were originally published in hardback by Ure Smith with comic illustrations; many have frequently been re-issued by other publishing houses, generally facsimile editions in paperback.
- They're a Weird Mob (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1957) and its sequels,
- Cop This Lot (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1960)
- Gone Fishin' (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962)
- Gone Gougin' (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1975)
- No Kava for Johnny (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1961) illustrated by 'wep'
- The Things They Do To You (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1963) illustrated by 'wep'
- Aussie English: An Explanation of the Australian Idiom (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1965)
- Ladies and Gentlemen (with Douglass Baglin) (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1966)
- Gone Troppo (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1968)
- O'Grady Sez (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1969)
- So Sue Me! (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1970)
- Are You Irish or Normal? (as by Sean O'Grada) (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1970)
- Aussie Etiket; or, Doing Things the Aussie Way (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1971)
- It's Your Shout, Mate!: Aussie pubs and Aussie beers (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1972)
- Smokey Joe the Fish-eater (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1972)
- Survival in the Doghouse (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1973)
- Now Listen, Mate! [re-issue of So sue me!] (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1974)
- There Was A Kid: An Autobiography, Part One (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1977)
- Down Under To Up Over (with Molly O'Grady) (Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1980)
Aussie Etiket was translated into Japanese as Ōsutoraria-ryū Echiketto: Oretachi Dattara Kōsuru Ne (Tōkyō : Kindai Bungeisha, 1993)
A collection of the papers of O'Grady, ranging from 1942–1986, are available in manuscript form at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.[1]
[edit] Family
O'Grady's son, John O'Grady, Jnr, was at one point the head of situation comedy at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation[2] and winner of the 1987 Television Drama Award for ABC TV series Mother and Son presented by the Australian Human Rights Commission.[3] O'Grady's brother, Frank, was also an author and published The Golden Valley (1955), Goonoo Goonoo (1956) and Hanging Rock (1957); all published by Cassell. Where O'Grady's novels were light satirical works, Frank O'Grady wrote pioneering sagas set in western New South Wales.[4]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Papers of John O'Grady (1907-1981)". Manuscripts (8046). National Library of Australia. 2007-12-06. http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms8046. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- ^ Tynan, Jacinta (2008-09-13). "Weird how my rello won his fame". Sydney Morning Herald (Fairfax Media). http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/weird-how-my-rello-won-his-fame/2008/09/12/1220857835068.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
- ^ "1987 Television Drama Award". Human Rights Medal and Awards. Australian Human Rights Commission. 1987. http://www.humanrights.gov.au/hr_awards/index.html. Retrieved 2007-08-11.
- ^ "O'Grady, John see 'Culotta, Nino': popular authorship, duplicity and celebrity". Australian Literary Studies (extract). Extract from The Gale Group. 2004-10-01. http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5000677/O-Grady-John-see-Culotta.html. Retrieved 2010-11-05.
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