University of Queensland

University of Queensland at Brisbane, Australia; founded 1909. It has faculties of agriculture, architecture and planning, arts, business studies, commerce and economics, education, social work, applied sciences, engineering, law, medicine, dentistry, music, science, and veterinary science. Queensland Agricultural College joined the university as Gatton College in 1990.

Hospital, Janette Turner (1942– ), novelist and short- story writer, born in Melbourne, Australia, and studied at the University of Queensland, and at Queen's University, Canada. The Ivory Swing (1982) won the Canadian Seal First Novel Award. Her other novels include The Tiger in the Tiger Pit (1983), Borderline (1985), Charades (1988), The Last Magician (1992), Oyster (1996), and Due Preparations for the Plague (2003, a thriller). Her allusive, lyrical prose and intricate narratives have been much admired. The theme of dislocation—both cultural and emotional—is recurrent in her work, as is the way in which the past influences and can discolour the present. She elaborates these themes in her collections of short stories, Dislocations (1986), Isobars (1990), and Collected Stories (1995).

Malouf, David (1934– ), Australian poet and novelist, born in Brisbane of English and Lebanese parents, educated at the University of Queensland. His first volume of poems, Bicycle and Other Poems, was published in 1970 and was followed by Neighbours in a Thicket (1974), Poems 1975–76 (1976), Wild Lemons (1980), First Things Last (1980), Selected Poems (1981), and Poems 1959–1989 (1994). His autobiographical novel Johnno (1975) is set in wartime Brisbane, while An Imaginary Life (1978) is a lyrical prose meditation on the last years of the Roman poet Ovid and his obsession with a wolf-child. He has also published novellas, including Child's Play, published together with Fly Away Peter in 1981. His other novels are Harland's Half Acre (1984); The Great World (1990), about the experiences of two friends during the Second World War; and Remembering Babylon (1993), set in Queensland during the mid-nineteenth century. Antipodes (1985) and Dream Stuff (2000) are collections of short stories. A selection of autobiographical essays was also published in 1985 as 12 Edmonstone Street.