Glenda Emilie Adams

Glenda Emilie Adams was born on the 30^th December 1939; she died on the 11^th July 2007. She was an Australian novelist and a short story writer and perhaps she is known best as the winner of the Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral in the year 1987. Glenda Emilie Adams was also a teacher of the creative writing and assisted in the development of the writing program.

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Emilie Adams’s work is seen in her own books and collections of short stories, in many athologies of short stories and in magazines and journals of the country. Her essays, stories and articles have been published in the following newspapers of the country; Meanjin, The New York Times Book Review, Island, Panorama, Quadrant, Southerly, Westerly, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Good Weekend, Vogue Australia, The (London) Observer and The Village Voice.

Life

Emilie Adams was born in the city of Ryde, A Sydney suburb and was the younger of the two children of the parent. She went to the Fort Street Primary school for two years and moved to the Sydney Girls High School before she moved to the University of Sydney and there she graduated with an honor degree in Indonesian.

When she won a scholarship to study at the Columbia University, Graduate School of Journalism and she moved to New York  and there she graduated in the year 1965. While she was studying, she met Gordon Adam, a political scientist at Columbia and they got married in the year 1967 and had a daughter called Caitlin before they divorced.

Emilie Adams worked as a lecturer at many higher institutions including Columbia University, Sarah Lawrence College before she moved to her country to University of Technology, Sydney. For the rest of her life, Emilie Adams travelled often between New York to see the daughter and teach at the Columbia and Sydney.

Her death was announced on the 13^th July 2007 by Jeremy Fisher, the Executive director of the Australian Society of Authors, after a long battle with the ovarian cancer. Her funeral was held on the 18^th July.

Awards

Ø  1991: National Book Council Banjo Award for Fiction, Joint Winner for Longleg

Ø  1990: The Age Book of the Year Award for Imaginative Writing for Longleg

Ø  1987: Miles Franklin Award for Dancing on Coral

Ø  1987: New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Special Award for Dancing on Coral.

Bibliography

Novels

Ø  Games of the Strong (1982)

Ø  Dancing on Coral (1987)

Ø  Longleg (1990)

Ø  The Tempest of Clemenza (1996)

Short story collections

Ø  Lies and Stories (1976)

Ø  The Hottest Night of the Century (1979)

Scripts

Ø  Pride (1993)

Ø  Wrath (1993)

Ø  The Monkey Trap commissioned by Griffin Theatre, Sydney (1998)