Nicholas Hasluck
The Honourable Justice Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born 17 October 1942) is an Australian novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.
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Early life
Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government under Robert Menzies, and was later appointed Governor-General of Australia. Nicholas went to school at Scotch College, Perth, and Canberra Grammar School, before studying law at the University of Western Australia (1963) and Oxford (1966). After completing his studies he worked briefly in Fleet Street in London as an editorial assistant before returning to Australia in 1967 to work as a barrister sometimes in partnership with Robert Holmes à Court.[1] He was deputy chair of the Australia Council from 1978 to 1982 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Judicial career
On 1 May 2000, Hasluck was appointed as a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia.
Writing career
Hasluck started writing at school, producing poetry and essays for the school magazine and was first professionally published in 1964 with a poem appearing in Westerly literary magazine.[2]
Hasluck's books fall into two categories, which he describes as 'moral thriller genre and satire', with the thriller interesting him the most.[3] He cites the American writers William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal as being his main literary influences.[4]
In 2006, Hasluck became Chairperson of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Awards
| The Miles Franklin Award | The Country Without Music, shortlisted 1991; Truant State, shortlisted 1987 |
| Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | The Country Without Music, joint winner 1991; Our Man K, shortlisted 1999 |
| The Age Book of the Year Award | The Bellarmine Jug, Imaginative Writing Prize and Book of the Year 1984 |
Bibliography
Novels
- Quarantine (1978) [5]
- The Blue Guitar (1980)
- The Hand That Feeds You (1982)
- The Bellarmine Jug (1984)
- Truant State (1987)
- The Country Without Music (1990)
- The Blosseville File (1992)
- A Grain of Truth (1994)
- Our Man K (1999)
- Dismissal (2011) [6]
Short story collections
- The Hat on the Letter 'O' and Other Stories (1978)
- The Hat on the Letter 'O' and Other Stories (1990), revised edition
Poetry
- Anchor and Other Dreams (1976)
- On the Edge (1981)
Non-fiction
- Chinese Journey (1985) (with Christopher Koch)
- Collage: Recollections and Images of the University of Western Australia (1987), essays
- Offcuts From a Legal Literary Life (1993), essays [7]
- The Legal Labyrinth (2003)
- Somewhere in the Atlas: The Road to Khe Sanh and Other Travel Pieces (2007) [8]
- Legal Limits (2013)
Articles
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Notes
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References
- Baker, Candida (1986) Yacker: Australian writers talk about their work, Sydney, Picador
See also
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