Rodney Hall

Author

Born in Birmingham, England, in 1935, Rodney Hall was educated in Brisbane until leaving school at the age of sixteen. He later returned to study at the University of Queensland and graduated in 1971.

Hall began his literary career writing poetry, before venturing into scriptwriting for radio and television, and eventually novels. He has also worked as a film critic, and a lecturer in writing. To date he has completed nine novels, two of which have won the Miles Franklin Award: ‘Just Relations’ (1982) and ‘The Grisly Wife’ (1994).

His novel ‘Captivity Captive’ won the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for best Fiction Work in 1988, and several of Hall’s novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the National Book Council’s Banjo Award. Many collections of Hall’s poetry have also been published.

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