Nan Chauncy
Nan Chauncy ( born May 28, 1900 in Northwood, Middlesex, England; † May 1, 1970 in Baghdad, Tasmania; born Nancen Beryl Masterman ) was a British-Australian children's book author.
Life
Born and raised Nan Chauncy in an English middle class family with a twin brother and four other siblings. When she was twelve years old, the family moved to Australia, where his father in the Tasmanian capital Hobart found a job with the local government authority as a civil engineer. When the contract had expired two years later, the family settled in the 32 km north of Hobart town situated Baghdad and built a fruit plantation. During the next four years, Nan Chauncy grew up in the rolling countryside of the Southern Midlands and around Baghdad in Hobart, where she went to school. As of 1918, the First World War was over, the family gave the plantation and moved to the capital, only the eldest brother kept a plot of land and a house in the north. Nan Chauncy became involved with the Girl Scouts and was also leader of a local group in Claremont, so they set the plot for scout camp available.
After a temporary stay in England Chauncy worked from 1923 for the candy maker Cadbury in Hobart. After the onset of the Great Depression in 1930, she followed her twin brother to England, where she continued her training scouts. She also began writing and trained in this direction continues. She traveled to other European countries and worked for four years as an English teacher in a Danish scout school.
For her father's 80th birthday in 1938, she returned back to Australia and learned on the trip to the Germans Anton Rosenfeld know, who emigrated to Australia because of the Nazis. In the same year they got married, moved into the cottage in Baghdad, which gave them the brother, and started a goat farm. As a German name after the Second World War in Australia was not popular, they both took the family name of Nan Chauncy grandmother. She worked at that time for the Australian Broadcasting as a writer for the Youth Programme and wrote her first children's book. It was called They Found a Cave and plays in a Tasmanian cave, as they are found in the area of Baghdad. They also enlarged share their lands and turned the Chauncy Vale called possession in 1946 a legally protected animal reserve on private land.
The following year, Nan Chauncy then found in the Oxford University Press in England a publisher for her first novel, and the book was published in 1948. It was very successful and sold over 50,000 copies. In the following years she continued to write children's books in which she not only earned their nature experiences in the Tasmanian landscape but also addressed the preservation of nature as well as dealing with the Aborigines. Her fourth book Tiger in the Bush won in 1958 the Australian Children's Book Award of the Children's Book Council for the book of the year, what could they repeat the following two books Devil 's Hill and Tangara. In 1962 she was accepted as a first Australian in the honor list for the Hans Christian Andersen Award. Her books were there already an international success and has been published in 13 languages worldwide. From her debut novel, They Found a Cave there is also a Tasmania produced in film from this year.
By the end of the 60 years she continued to write successful children's books before they became seriously ill with cancer and died in 1970.
1983 honored the Children's Book Council, the writer by calling in recognition of the complete works of an Australian children's book author Nan Chauncy Award to life. Originally every five years, the award is awarded every two years since 1998.
1988, a series of television films from each of the states was produced on the occasion of Australia's 200 - year celebration. For Tasmania, a film adaptation of Chauncys book Devil 's Hill was to rotated. In the same year her husband and daughter bequeathed the 380 -hectare game reserve with the house of the local Council. The Chauncy Vale Wildlife Sanctuary, the mid-2000s a further 455 hectare area was connected, is a destination for tourists and school groups and the house, which until recently had no electricity, is a memorial to the author.
In 2005 she was accepted as one of the first in the newly formed Tasmanian Honour Roll of Women, which honors women who have made an outstanding contribution to the state.
Works
Children's Books
- They Found a Cave (1948, published in German under the title cavemen in Capra Valley )
- World's End What Home (1952 )
- A Fortune for the Brave (1954, German battle for the island treasure, former title The treasure at the mouth rocks )
- Tiger in the Bush ( 1957)
- Devil 's Hill (1958, German cave in Teufelsberg. Adventurous experiences of Lorennie children in Tasmanian bush )
- Tangara, Let Us Set Off Again ( 1961 German The Riddle of the shell necklace, and O, the young emu ... )
- The Secret Friends (1962 )
- Half a World Away ( 1962 German The log cabin on the hilltop; halbautobiografischer novel)
- The Roaring 40 (1963, German Daxi, Tom and Great Four: Like Father Lorennies Youngest to Tasmania's lonely coast instead of gold found a friend )
- High and Haunted Iceland (1964, German Lost in Port Davy )
- The Skewbald Pony ( 1965)
- Mathinna 's People (1967, other Title: Hunted in Their Own Country )
- Lizzie 's Lights (1968 )
- The Lighthouse Keeper 's Son ( 1969)
More Releases
- Beekeeping ( 1967 on beekeeping )