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

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