Brian Matthews (writer)

Brian Matthews (born 1936) is an Australian biographer and short story writer who was born in St Kilda, Victoria, and educated at Melbourne University.[1] In 1967 he moved to Adelaide to teach English and Australian literature at Flinders University.

Brian Matthews
Born1936
St Kilda, Victoria
OccupationWriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian

Matthews was granted an Australia Council for the Arts Writer's Fellowship in 1989 and was Chair of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 1990 to 1992.[1] He is considered Australia's foremost scholar on Henry Lawson and his mother Louisa. His biography of Louisa Lawson, Louisa, won the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for non-fiction.

Bibliography

Novel

Short story collections
  • Quickening and Other Stories (1989)

Autobiography
  • A Fine and Private Place (2000)

Biography
  • Louisa (1987)
  • Manning Clark : A Life (2008)

Essays
  • Romantics and Mavericks : The Australian Short Story (1987)
  • Oval Dreams : Larrikin Essays on Sport and Low Culture (1991)

Edited
  • Henry Lawson : Selected Stories (1971)
  • Readers, Writers, Publishers : Essays and Poems (2004)

Awards and nominations

References
  1. "Austlit – Brian Matthews"
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