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Tirra Lirra by the River
Tirra Lirra by the River is a novel by Australian writer Jessica Anderson. It won the Miles Franklin Award. "Review of Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson." Westerly 25 (1980): 78–80.
Haynes, Roslyn.
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tirra-lirra
tirra-lirra (ˈtɪrəˈlɪrə) Also 7 teery-larry, -lerry, -leery, tyra-lyra. Cf. tiralee. [Echoic. Cf. OF. turelu, tureluru, ‘a comic or burlesque refrain’ (Godefroy), turelure a bagpipe, a refrain, F. turlut a titlark; and quot. 1889.] A representation of the note of the skylark, or of a similar sound u...
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tiralee
tiralee (ˈtɪrəliː) Also 6 tireli, 7 tirlery. [Echoic. Cf. OF. turelu a comic or burlesque refrain, and see tirra-lirra.] a. The note of the lark; = tirra-lirra. b. A representation of a bugle note or cadence.1596 C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 24 Even as the Larke..Mounteth her basinetted head o...
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Jessica Anderson (writer)
She rose to prominence upon the publication of her fourth novel, Tirra Lirra by the River, published in 1978. Tirra Lirra by the River
Her greatest mainstream success, however, was to come in 1978 with the publication of her fourth novel, Tirra Lirra by the River
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towry-lowry
† ˈtowry-ˈlowry dial. (Cf. tirra-lirra.)1632 Brome North. Lasse i. ii, And then towry, lowry, faith, my noble Governor, and I. 1878 Cumberld. Gloss., Towry lowry, all in disorder.
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Duncan Lunan
He also contributed two stories, "'Tirra Lirra' by the River, Sang Sir Lancelot" and "Landscape Modification in the Vicinity of Highgate Cemetery", to
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Laura E. Richards
Her children's book Tirra Lirra won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959. Her home in Gardiner, the Laura E. Lirra: Rhymes Old and New (1932)
Merry-Go-Round: New Rhymes and Old (1935)
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terlerie
† terlerie, -lery Obs. [? Related to OF. tire-lire, a kind of rhythmical utterance or refrain in singing or dancing.] In the following combinations applied to jinking or whisking about, or performing rapid circumvolutions, with the accompaniment of rhythmical meaningless words. Cf. tirra-lirra.[Cf. ...
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1978 in Australian literature
Events
Jessica Anderson won the 1978 Miles Franklin Award for Tirra Lirra by the River
Major publications
Books
Jessica Anderson – Tirra Lirra by
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1978 in literature
Lirra by the River
Aharon Appelfeld – Badenheim 1939 (באדנהיים עיר נופש, )
Richard Bach – Illusions
Beryl Bainbridge – Young Adolf
Thomas Berger – Arthur Lirra by the River
Premio Nadal: Germán Sánchez Espeso, Narciso
Viareggio Prize: Antonio Altomonte, Dopo il presidente
References
1978 books
Years of
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1978 in Australia
Arts and literature
Brett Whiteley wins the Archibald Prize with Art, Life and the other thing
Jessica Anderson's novel Tirra Lirra By the River wins
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September 1916
Born: Jessica Anderson, Australian writer, author of Tirra Lirra by the River and The Impersonators, in Gayndah, Australia (d. 2010); Joe Bacuzzi, English
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Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Richards, Tirra Lirra: New Rhymes and Old (1932)
Jean de Brunhoff, Story of Babar (1933); originally French, Histoire de Babar (1931) ‡
Kate Seredy,
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Literary nonsense
Tirra Lirra: Rhymes Old and New, illus. Marguerite Davis. London: George G. Harrap, 1933.
Roethke, Theodore, I Am!
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