Randolph Stow
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Julian Randolph Stow (1935-) is an acclaimed Australian writer.
Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, he attended the University of Western Australia and later 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 and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands.
His novel To the Islands won the Miles Franklin Award in 1958. He was awarded the Patrick White Award in 1979.
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Selected 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
Opera
- Eight Songs for a Mad King 1969, libretto
- Miss Donnithorne's Maggot 1974, libretto