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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

biographical notes

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
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.

documentary film made about her by Don Featherstone "Wrestling the Angel - Blanche d'Alpuget"

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.

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

critical article on relating to turtle beach found here:

http://www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au/vol3no3_2004/osuri_ordinary.htm