Ursula Dubosarsky

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Ursula Dubosarsky (born Ursula Coleman, Sydney, 1961) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and voice of both clarity and ambiguity.[1] She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30-year history.[2]

She is the author of illustrated books and novels, and also three works of non-fiction about the English language, grammar and etymology for children, featuring a character known as "The Word Spy".[3] These "Word Spy" books, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Award and Book of the Year Award.[4] In the United States and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop."[5]

Her novel "The Red Shoe" is included in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up and is one of 200 significant works of Australian literature in the Copyright Agency's Reading Australia program.[6]

Three of her books have been adapted for theatre - "The Red Shoe",[7] "The Terrible Plop"[8] and "Too Many Elephants In This House".[9]

In 2014, the annual Christmas Windows of the department store David Jones were based on her story "Reindeer's Christmas Surprise."[10][11]

She is the third child of Peter Coleman and Verna Susannah Coleman. Her name was suggested by the character of Ursula Brangwen in the 1915 novel The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. She attended SCEGGS Darlinghurst and Sydney University and later Macquarie University. She is a Honorary Associate in the Department of English at Macquarie University[12] and has taught courses in children's literature at Sydney University and the University of Technology, Sydney.[13]

Awards

International

Hans Christian Andersen Award Nominee 2015[14]

Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award Nominee 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016[15]

Luchs (Lynx ) Award for Children's Literature July 2012 for The Golden Day (in German Nicht Jetz, niemals)[16]

International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY[17]) Honour Book List 2014 for The Golden Day

YALSA (Division of the American Library Association) Excellence in Non-fiction for Young Adults Nominee 2010 for Word Snoop[18]

White Ravens International Catalogue 2007 for The Red Shoe[19] and 1996 for The First Book of Samuel[20]

Australian

Theatrical productions

Bibliography

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Critical studies, reviews and biography

References

  1. ↑ "The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature" (2006) edited by Jack Zipes
  2. ↑ "NSW Premier Nathan Rees announces 2009 NSW Literary Award Winners" News Release Premier of New South Wales, Australia, 18 May 2009 http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/documents/_NSW_Prem_Lit_Winners_Announcement.pdf
  3. ↑ http://www.penguin.com.au/products/9780670072279/word-spy Retrieved 30 July 2012
  4. ↑ http://cbca.org.au/awardshistory.htm Retrieved 30 July 2012
  5. ↑ http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780803734067,00.html Retrieved 30 July 2012
  6. ↑ http://readingaustralia.com.au/books/362/
  7. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswHnHeMExw
  8. ↑ http://www.newvictory.org/show.m?showID=1034027 retrieved 2 July 2012
  9. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/ursula-dubosarsky-elephants-roam-from-page-to-stage-20140510-382bb.html
  10. ↑ http://shop.davidjones.com.au/djs/en/davidjones/reindeers-christmas-surprise
  11. ↑ http://mumbrella.com.au/david-jones-moves-retail-emotion-new-things-love-christmas-campaign-260713
  12. ↑ http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_english/staff/
  13. ↑ http://sydney.edu.au/arts/english/postgrad/programs_creative_writing.shtml
  14. ↑ http://www.ibby.org/1492.0.html?&L=2%2F
  15. ↑ http://www.alma.se/en/Nominations/Candidates/2015/
  16. ↑ http://www.radiobremen.de/unternehmen/presse/radio/luchs514.html Luchs Award Radio Bremen
  17. ↑ http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/DetailPage.aspx?type=item&id=28636
  18. ↑ http://www.ala.org/yalsa/booklistsawards/bookawards/nonfiction/2010nominations
  19. ↑ http://www.childrenslibrary.org/servlet/WhiteRavens?searchText=dubosarsky White Ravens
  20. ↑ http://www.childrenslibrary.org/servlet/WhiteRavens?searchText=dubosarsky White Ravens
  21. ↑ http://www.speechpathologyaustralia.org.au/spa-news-a-events/book-of-the-year-awards
  22. ↑ Children's Book Council of Australia http://cbca.org.au/winners2011.htm#ep
  23. ↑ http://www.literaryawards.com.au/nswpremiers.html
  24. ↑ http://www.koalansw.org.au/winners/
  25. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/2007-nsw-premiers-literary-awards/2007/05/29/1180205249745.html
  26. ↑ http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=511&book=9781741142853
  27. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/nsw-premiers-literary-awards-2006-winners/2006/05/23/1148150258652.html
  28. ↑ http://www.puffin.com.au/contributors/ursula-dubosarsky
  29. ↑ http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/2012/ursula_dubosarsky?people=2012-ursula-dubosarsky
  30. ↑ http://shirewritersfestival.weebly.com/presenters.html
  31. ↑ http://www.goodreadingmagazine.com.au/data/teaching_notes/10487.pdf
  32. ↑ http://www.canberra.edu.au/lurees/searching/author-index/attachments/other_files/DubosarskyUR.html
  33. ↑ http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/ursula-dubosarsky-elephants-roam-from-page-to-stage-20140510-382bb.html
  34. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nswHnHeMExw
  35. ↑ http://www.windmill.org.au/show/plop retrieved 2 July 2012
  36. ↑ http://www.newvictory.org/show.m?showID=1034027 retrieved 2 July 2012
  37. ↑ "Tim and Ed". Catalogue. National Library of Australia. Retrieved 1 April 2015.

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