Martine Murray
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Martine Murray is an Australian author and illustrator, currently residing in Melbourne
. She has written many critically acclaimed books, including How to Make a Bird
, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Young Adult award in 2004, and The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Children's Book award in 2006.
She has studied filmmaking at Prahran College
, art at the Victorian College of the Arts
and Movement & Dance at Melbourne University. She has formed dance theatre company called Bird on a Wire, and recently received Arts Victoria funding to develop and perform a full length work, as part a of Melbourne's Next Wave Festival. She also teaches yoga and has been involved in community circus.
Martine is currently enrolled in Professional Writing at RMIT
and plans further study in screen writing and short story
.
Martine Murray is an Australian author. She was born in Melbourne Victoria and still lives there today.
young readers category in 2003.
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
. She has written many critically acclaimed books, including How to Make a Bird
How to Make a Bird
How to Make a Bird by Australian author Martine Murray is a children's novel which centres on a young adolescent girl called Mannie. Mannie has faced a myriad of losses and challenges throughout her short life. Little by little they begin to make her question her identity...
, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book...
Young Adult award in 2004, and The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley, winner of the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
Queensland Premier's Literary Awards
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book...
Children's Book award in 2006.
She has studied filmmaking at Prahran College
Victoria College, Melbourne
Victoria College was a College of Advanced Education in Melbourne, Australia. It was created as a result of the merger on December 23 1981 of the State College of Victoria colleges at Burwood, Rusden and Toorak with the Prahran College of Advanced Education...
, art at the Victorian College of the Arts
Victorian College of the Arts
The Faculty of the VCA and Music is a faculty of the University of Melbourne, in Victoria . VCAM is located near the Melbourne central business district, on two campuses, one - the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - on the Parkville campus of the University of Melbourne, and the other - the...
and Movement & Dance at Melbourne University. She has formed dance theatre company called Bird on a Wire, and recently received Arts Victoria funding to develop and perform a full length work, as part a of Melbourne's Next Wave Festival. She also teaches yoga and has been involved in community circus.
Martine is currently enrolled in Professional Writing at RMIT
RMIT University
RMIT University is an Australian public university located in Melbourne, Victoria. It has two branches, referred to as RMIT University in Australia and RMIT International University in Vietnam....
and plans further study in screen writing and short story
Short story
A short story is a work of fiction that is usually written in prose, often in narrative format. This format tends to be more pointed than longer works of fiction, such as novellas and novels. Short story definitions based on length differ somewhat, even among professional writers, in part because...
.
Books
- A Moose Called Mouse ISBN 978-1865084947
- How to Make a BirdHow to Make a BirdHow to Make a Bird by Australian author Martine Murray is a children's novel which centres on a young adolescent girl called Mannie. Mannie has faced a myriad of losses and challenges throughout her short life. Little by little they begin to make her question her identity...
ISBN 1741141095 - The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Planned to Live an Unusual Life) ISBN 978-0439486231
- The Slightly Bruised Glory of Cedar B. Hartley (Who Can't Help Flying High and Falling in Deep)
Martine Murray is an Australian author. She was born in Melbourne Victoria and still lives there today.
Awards
The Slightly True Story of Cedar B. Hartley was shortlisted for the CBC'sChildren's Book Council of Australia
The Children's Book Council of Australia is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents annual awards for books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature.-Awards:The first...
young readers category in 2003.
External links
- Author home page at Scholastic Books - Interview of author - Profile of author - Review of one of her books
- Review from The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
- Review from the Chicago TribuneChicago TribuneThe Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
- Review from the Cairns Post
- Brief biographical article
- Review in Home News TribuneHome News TribuneHome News Tribune is a newspaper of New Jersey, serving the Middlesex County area of Central Jersey. The paper has an average daily weekday circulation of about 49,000. The newspaper is the result of a mid 1990s combination of The Home News of East Brunswick and The News Tribune of Woodbridge...