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1 online resource (27 min.) |
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Australasian video online |
| Summary |
Author. Born Southern Cross, Victoria, 1917. Died 1994. Born in Southern Cross, Victoria in 1917, Frank Hardy was brought up in Bacchus Marsh, the Benson's Valley of his short stories. Leaving school at 13, he worked as a fruit-picker, road ganger, seaman, grocer and cartoonist. After experiencing the effects of the Depression, he joined the Communist Party of Australia. In 1942 he enlisted in the army and was sent to the Northern Territory. During the late 1940s Hardy collected material for his most famous novel Power Without Glory. Its publication lead to one of Australia's most famous defamation trials. In 1950, Hardy was charged with libel and after nine months of court proceedings, he was finally acquitted. This experience was to become the basis of another of his books, The Hard Way. Power Without Glory became his best-known book and was made into a successful ABC-TV mini-series in 1976. His other novels are The Four-Legged Lottery, The Outcasts of Foolgarah, But the Dead are Many, Who Shot George Kirkland? and The Obsession of Oscar Oswald. Frank Hardy died in 1994 at the age of 76. The interview for Australian Biography was his last |
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Title from resource description page (viewed November 3, 2014) |
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In English |
| Subject |
Hardy, Frank J
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| SUBJECT |
Hardy, Frank J. fast (OCoLC)fst00007298 |
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Authors, Australian -- Interviews
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Novelists, Australian -- Interviews
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Authors, Australian.
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Novelists, Australian.
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Documentary films.
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Interviews.
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Documentary films.
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Documentaires.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Heimans, Frank.
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