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The Honourable Justice
Nicholas Paul Hasluck AM (born
17 October 1942) is an
Australian
novelist, poet and short story writer, and judge. He lives in
Perth, Western Australia with his wife, Sally-Anne, and has two children.
Early life
Nicholas Hasluck was born in
Canberra. His father, Sir
Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government under
Robert Menzies, and was later appointed
Governor-General of Australia. Nicholas went to school at Scotch College,
Perth, and
Canberra Grammar School, before studying law at the
University of Western Australia (1963) and
Oxford (1966). After completing his studies he worked briefly in
Fleet Street in
London as an editorial assistant before returning to Australia in 1967 to work as a barrister. He was deputy chair of the
Australia Council from 1978 to 1982 and was made a
Member of the Order of Australia (AM).
Judicial career
On
1 May 2000, Hasluck was appointed as a judge on the
Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the
highest ranking court in the
Australian
State of
Western Australia.
Writing career
Hasluck started writing at school, producing poetry and essays for the school magazine and was first professionally published in 1964 with a poem appearing in
Westerly literary magazine.
Hasluck's books fall into two categories, which he describes as 'moral thriller genre and satire', with the thriller interesting him the most. He cites the American writers
William Faulkner,
Saul Bellow,
Norman Mailer and
Gore Vidal as being his main literary influences.
In 2006, Hasluck became Chairperson of the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize.
Awards
Bibliography
Novels
- Quarantine (1978)
- The Blue Guitar (1980)
- The Hand That Feeds You (1982)
- The Bellarmine Jug (1984)
- Truant State (1987)
- The Country Without Music (1990)
- The Blosseville File (1992)
- A Grain of Truth (1994)
- Our Man K (1999)
Short story collections
The Hat on the Letter 'O' and Other Stories (1978)
The Hat on the Letter 'O' and Other Stories (1990), revised edition
Poetry
Anchor and Other Dreams (1976)
On the Edge (1981)
Non-Fiction
Chinese Journey (1985) (with Christopher Koch)
Collage: Recollections and Images of the University of Western Australia (1987), essays
Offcuts From a Legal Literary Life (1993), essays
The Legal Labyrinth (2003)Further Information
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