Other activities, 1974-81
- Containers:
- Box 51, Box 52, Box 53, Box 54
- Component identifier:
- Series 12
- Content Summary:
- Thiele played an active role in various organisations such as the Commonwealth Literary Fund and the Australian Society of Authors and he was involved in various projects. The series comprises the following groups of papers: 1. Australian Society of Authors(Thiele was the President in 1989): newsletters, annual reports, financial papers and leaflets. 2. Commonwealth Literary Fund (Thiele was a Fellow in 1962): correspondence and papers relating to Lecture Tours of Western Australia (1962) and New South Wales (1964). The correspondents include Pamela Casey, John Penfold, Anthony King and Donovan Clarke. 3. International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) Australian Section: correspondence and leaflets. The correspondent is Ena Noel. 4. Austrian Children's Book Prize: papers relating to Thiele's visit to Austria and Germany to receive awards for the German editions of Sknuks and The Hammerhead light 5. Hans Heysen: correspondence with Geoffrey Serle concerning Heysen's entry for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and papers relating to Thiele's writings on Heysen for Don Cornes of the International Printmakers' House. See Series 6 for Heysen of Hahndorf. 6. Miscellaneous files: relating to plays edited by Thiele, including The living stage and Plays for young people; and Ranger's territory by Frank Woerle from a story told by Thiele. Material pertaining to lecture tours of Melbourne (1962-63) and Tasmania (1968); Literature in Australian Schools: intensive adult education course to study various aspects of Australian Literature, held at the University of Adelaide, May 1972; and games and puzzles created by Jonathan Appleton based on Thiele's books (1987). 7. Requests to reproduce Thiele's writings: requests from publishers to reproduce poems or parts of Thiele's books in different formats, such school text books. The correspondents include Joan Mcfarlane, Cynthia Graham, Carol Barrie, Gillian Cardinal, Alison Rowe, Margaret Parry, Margaret Craddock, Tom Hayllar and Mary Abela.
- Immediate source of acquisition:
- The papers were donated to the Library by Colin Thiele under the Taxation Incentives for the Arts Scheme in 1992.
Access and use
- Parent Restrictions:
- Please refer to the collection's catalogue record for the access conditions (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn76127).
- Parent Terms of Access:
- Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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