Gillian Mears aggregated collection of papers, photographs and audiovisual material, 1941-2016

fonds

1941-2016

Textual Records, Graphic Materials, Photographs, Drawings, Clippings, Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Ephemera, Cartographic Materials

9630896

Gillian Mears (1964-2016), award winning novelist and short story writer, was born in Lismore and grew up in and around the northern New South Wales town of Grafton. In 1985 she completed a degree in communications at the NSW Institute of Technology, Sydney. She published two collections of short stories, Ride a Cock Horse (1988), winner of a Commonwealth Writer's prize and Fineflour (1990). Her first novel, The Mint Lawn, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1990 and was published the following year. She won a Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship in 1990 and a Literature Board studio residency in Paris a year later. She has contributed numerous stories to magazines and also to a number of anthologies including Sisters (1993) and Picador New Writers 2 (1994). Her second novel, The Grass Sister (1995) won a Commonwealth Writer's prize and A Map of the Gardens (2002) won the 2003 Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award. After being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she bought an old ambulance she called ‘Ant and Bee’ in which she lived, wrote and travelled for several years. From 2006 she was living at Mt Barker in the Adelaide Hills, where she wrote her multi-award winning novel Foal's Bread (2011) and an illustrated fable about life and death for all ages, The Cat with the Coloured Tail (2015). Mears died on 16 May 2016 in her cabin on her father's property near Grafton.

Reference:
Library correspondence file

COLLECTION 01
Gillian Mears papers, 1985-1993
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Gillian Mears in 1994

COLLECTION 02
Gillian Mears further papers, 1964-1996
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Gillian Mears in 1995 and 1996

COLLECTION 03
Gillian Mears further papers, 1970-1996
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Gillian Mears, 1996

COLLECTION 04
Gillian Mears further papers, 1969-1997
Donated through the Australian Government’s Cultural Gifts Program by Gillian Mears, 1998

COLLECTION 05
Gillian Mears further papers, 1974-1999
Purchased from Gillian Mears, 1999

COLLECTION 06
Gillian Mears further papers, 1972-2000
Purchased from Gillian Mears in 2000

COLLECTION 07
Gillian Mears further papers, 1972-2001
Purchased from Gillian Mears, 2002

COLLECTION 08
Gillian Mears further papers, ca. 1973-2005
Purchased from Gillian Mears, 2005

COLLECTION 09
Gillian Mears further papers, 1941-2008
Purchased from Gillian Mears, November 2008

COLLECTION 10
Gillian Mears further papers, 2004-2010
Presented by Gillian Mears, November 2010

COLLECTION 11
Gillian Mears further papers, 1960, 1978-1994; 2009-2014
Purchased from Gillian Mears, December 2014

COLLECTION 12
Gillian Mears further papers, 1987-2016
Purchased from the estate of Gillian Mears, 2016

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