Guide to the Records of the Australian Society of Authors, 1963-c.1999

Summary

Collection number:

MS 4572, Acc01.218, Acc16.112, MS Acc17.108

Creator:

Australian Society of Authors

Extent:

(16 ms boxes + 5 archives boxes + 94 sound/av carriers + 9 digital carriers)

Language:

English and English

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Australian Society of Authors, National Library of Australia, MS 4572, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Availability:

Available

Access conditions:

Available for research. Not for loan.

Background

Content Summary:

MS 4572 includes correspondence, notes, articles and drafts of the journal The Australian author, reports, newsletters and minutes of meetings of the Australian Society of Authors, financial papers such as receipt books and accounts and copies of the journal, Broadside. They relate to the organisation of the Society in 1963, the publishing of The Australian author and the problems involved in writing and publishing. The records also include correspondence, notes and minutes of the Australian Writers' Guild, papers relating to an inquiry into conditions of writers made in 1969 and transcripts of ASA seminars held in 1968.The correspondents in MS 4572 include G.C. O'Donnel, Dal Stivens, Frank Watts, J. Hellyer, Geoffrey Dutton, K.S. Prichard, Xavier Herbert, Nettie Palmer, Dymphna Cusack, A.D. Hope, T. Inglis Moore, Kylie Tennant, Keith Ewers, C.B. Christesen, J.M. Douglas Pringle and Morris West.The Acc01/218 instalment includes translations drafted under the ASA Translation Grants Program, a project funded in 1999 by the Literature Fund of the Australia Council. Most of the translations are from English to foreign languages, with a few foreign titles which have been translated into English. Titles include, David Williamson's Travelling north (Vietnamese), Patrick White's The vivisector (Greek), Xavier Herbert's Capricornia (Chinese), Peter Carey's Illywacker (Russian) and Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay's New Guinea diary (Russian to English).

Indexed terms

Names:

Australian Society of Authors

Conditions Governing Access:

Access conditions may apply to this collection, please refer to the collection's catalogue record for further information (http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2076781).

Conditions Governing Use:

Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions.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.

Preferred citation:

Items from this collection should be cited as '[Title or description of manuscript item], Records of the Australian Society of Authors, National Library of Australia, MS 4572, [box number and series and/or folder number]'.

Location of this collection:

National Library of Australia

Parkes Place

Canberra ACT 2600, Australia

Contact:

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