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UQP The Writer's Press: 1948-1998

UQP The Writer's Press: 1948-1998

The Writer's Press 1948-1998

by Craig Munro
Hardback
Publication Date: 24/08/1998

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As well as a detailed chronology and numerous illustrations, UQP - The Writer's Press includes a complete list of all titles published between 1948 and 1998.

In the half century since 1948, UQP has published two thousand books - from cutting-edge scholarship to acclaimed literary fiction, poetry, popular memoir, history and biography, children's books and Indigenous writing.

A unique feature of the list has been the high proportion of original titles and new writers. UQP published first books by Peter Carey, David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Rodney Hall, Olga Masters, Roger McDonald, Murray Bail and Marion Halligan, among others - writers whose work is now read around the globe.

A blend of memoir, essay and interview, this commemorative publishing history tells the inside story of the Press that launched the brilliant careers of so many renowned writers. Contributors include David Malouf, Michael Wilding, Roger McDonald, Frank Thompson, Barbara Ker Wilson, D'Arcy Randall and Martin Duwell.

For UQP 1998 marks fifty years of independent Australian publishing. In that time UQP authors have won every major Australian literary award along with coveted international awards including the Booker and Commonwealth prizes.
ISBN:
9780702230059
9780702230059
Category:
Social & cultural history
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
24-08-1998
Publisher:
University of Queensland Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
1
Dimensions (mm):
178x137x32mm
Weight:
0.61kg
Craig Munro

Craig Munro is an award-winning biographer and the founding chair of the Queensland Writers Centre. As the inaugural fiction editor at the University of Queensland Press, and later as publishing manager, he worked with many emerging writers who have since become celebrated authors.

Craig won the Barbara Ramsden Award for editing in 1985, and studied book publishing in Canada and the United States on a Churchill Fellowship in 1991. His previous books include Paper Empires: a history of the book in Australia, 1946–2005 (co-edited with Robyn Sheahan-Bright) and Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing.

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