Jennifer Compton (born 1949) is a New Zealand-born Australian poet and playwright.
Jennifer Compton | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1949  Wellington |
| Occupation | Playwright, poet, short story writer |
Biography edit
She was born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1949 and attended Wellington East Girls' College. In the 1970s, she emigrated to Sydney, Australia with her husband Matthew O'Sullivan. They now live in Carrum in Melbourne.[1]
After attending the NIDA Playwrights Studio, her play No Man's Land (later Crossfire) jointly won the Newcastle Playwriting Competition (with John Romeril's A Floating World) in 1974. It was premiered at the Nimrod Theatre in Sydney in 1975 and published by Currency Press in 1976. Compton returned from Australia to Wellington for several years[2] at the end of 1975 and in August 1976 appeared in the play 'Fanshen' at Unity Theatre.[3] In October 1976, Compton was awarded a $4000 bursary (for 1977) by the New Zealand Literary Fund. This bursary was awarded by the Literary Fund to enable writers to write full-time.[4]
Her stage play The Big Picture was premiered at the Griffin Theatre in Sydney in 1997 and was published by Currency Press in 1999.
She has mostly written short fiction and poetry. A book of poems, Parker & Quink, was published by Ginninderra Press in 2004, and another, Barefoot, was published by Picaro Press in 2010. Barefoot was short listed for the John Bray Poetry Award at the Adelaide Festival in 2012.
Compton won the 2005 Peter Blazey Fellowship for "Who Doesn't Want Me to Dance".[5]
This City was published by Otago University Press in July 2011 and won the Kathleen Grattan Award in New Zealand.
Bibliography edit
Plays edit
- Morris, Meaghan, ed. (1976). Jennifer Compton's play Crossfire (No man's land) : the role of women in Australian society, with historical comment on women's suffrage, status and the politics of motherhood. Sydney: Currency Press.
Poetry edit
Collections edit
- Compton, Jennifer (1993). From the other woman. Wollongong, NSW: Five Islands Press and SCARP Productions.
List of poems edit
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dead playwrights | 1995 | Compton, Jennifer (October 1995). "Dead playwrights". Quadrant. 39 (10): 31. | |
| Old friends | 1995 | Compton, Jennifer (October 1995). "Old friends". Quadrant. 39 (10): 32. |
References edit
- ^ "Jennifer Compton - Tapa Notebooks - nzepc". www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ^ "An Evening with Adolph Hitler". Tharunka. 9 October 1978. Retrieved 5 April 2022.
- ^ "Actress of many parts plays in Unity's 'Fanshen'". The Sentinel. 4 August 1976.
- ^ "Awarded bursary". Evening Post. 9 October 1976.
- ^ "Australian Centre Literary Awards – Peter Blazey Fellowship". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
External links edit
- National Library of Australia Catalogue - http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn2385725 - http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1317255
- Jennifer Compton poem in Qualm
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