WRITER

Patricia Wrightson

1921 - 2010

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Patricia Wrightson OBE (19 June 1921 – 15 March 2010) was an Australian writer of several highly regarded and influential children's books. Employing a 'magic realism' style, her books, including the award-winning The Nargun and the Stars (1973), were among the first Australian books for children to draw on Australian Aboriginal mythology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patricia Wrightson has received more than 36,842 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Patricia Wrightson is the 5,465th most popular writer (up from 5,528th in 2019), the 244th most popular biography from Australia (up from 270th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Australian Writer.

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  • 18

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  • 1.97

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Notable Works

Intelligent Human-Machine Collaboration
Human-machine systems
2012
The Nargun and the stars
Fantasy, Fiction
An orphan boy Simon is sent to live with some relatives in the country, and discovers that life is not always as it seems. As machinery goes missing from a local road project, he encounters strange creatures that live in the bush and the rocks and the trees, and works with them to divert a fearsome primitive being that is rampaging through the area. He learns to really see the world, to trust, to believe and ultimately to live his life fully.
1973
A little fear
Children's fiction, Australia, fiction, Fairy tales
A strong-minded old woman struggles with an ancient gnome for the right to live in her own small cottage.
1983
The ice is coming
Fantasy
Wirrun was a man of the People, the aborigines of Australia. He was young and educated in the ways of the whites. But when the mountain cried for help, he heard. For the Ninya, the ancient ice-spirits, were seeking the bring a new ice age to the land down under Together with the Mimi, a rock-spirit from far away, he sets out to find the Eldest Nargun, a creature of living rock that had defeated the Ninya in the long-gone past. And with the Power given him by a hero-spirit, he could see and command all the ancient earth-spirits. But the way was long and hard, and the Eldest Nargun was not what he expected.
1977
'I own the racecourse'
Children's stories, Child and youth fiction, Fiction, general
1968
Balyet
Fiction, Supernatural, Aboriginal Australians
Despite the precautions of the old aborigine woman she calls Granny, fourteen-year-old Jo falls under the spell of a secret thing in the Australian hills, a girl endlessly alive and crying for the death that will not take her.
1989

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Patricia Wrightson ranks 5,465 out of 7,302. Before her are Algis Budrys, Théodore Aubanel, Uladzimir Nyaklyayew, John Marston, Eugenio Montejo, and Jakub Arbes. After her are Emilia Lanier, Gonzalo Rojas, Martin Cruz Smith, Guy Gavriel Kay, Eva Kotchever, and J. Bernlef.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Patricia Wrightson ranks 355. Before her are Phạm Duy, Denys de La Patellière, Herb Ellis, Giorgio Scarlatti, Josef Holeček, and Abdul Qadir al-Badri. After her are Theodore Van Kirk, Jimmy Giuffre, Joann Lõssov, Alexis Smith, Stanisław Nagy, and Karel Husa. Among people deceased in 2010, Patricia Wrightson ranks 324. Before her are Ilene Woods, Pavel Kolchin, Lisa Blount, Nujabes, Jacques Swaters, and Kazimir Hnatow. After her are Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, Nena, Eva Ibbotson, Corey Haim, Marc Bazin, and Teddy Pendergrass.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Patricia Wrightson ranks 244 out of 1,143. Before her are Harry Hopman (1906), Lauren Jackson (1981), Peter Garrett (1953), Fleur Mellor (1936), Richard Bonynge (1930), and Joseph Jacobs (1854). After her are David Malet Armstrong (1926), Adrian Quist (1913), Judy Amoore (1940), Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Stanley Bruce (1883), and Lesley Turner Bowrey (1942).

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Among WRITERS In Australia

Among writers born in Australia, Patricia Wrightson ranks 19. Before her are Joan Lindsay (1896), Gregory David Roberts (1952), Peter Carey (1943), Greg Egan (1961), Trudi Canavan (1969), and Joseph Jacobs (1854). After her are Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920), Markus Zusak (1975), Henry Lawson (1867), Robert Hughes (1938), Kate Morton (1976), and David Malouf (1934).

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