Record ID:
35073028 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1936
  • Kempsey, New South Wales
Occupations:
  • Writer
Used for:
  • Klein, Robin
  • Klein, Robin Nancy Wilga, 1936-
Notes:
  • Robin McMaugh Klein is a well-known Australian author of books for children. She was born 28 February 1936, in Kempsey, New South Wales and now resides near Melbourne. Several of her books have been short-listed for the Australian Children's Book of the Year Award, including Hating Alison Ashley (also a film starring Delta Goodrem) and Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left (filmed as a television series for the Seven Network in 1992). Klein's novel Came Back to Show You I Could Fly won a Human Rights Award for Literature in 1989 and also won the 1990 Australian Children's Book of the Year Award for Older Readers. It was filmed as Say a Little Prayer in 1993. She wrote her first short story at the age of 16. Several of her other books have received awards in Australia, including the South Australian Festival Award for Literature, which she won in 1998 with The Listmaker. Many have also won or been short listed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Klein
  • Her Penny Pollard's diary, 1983 title page (Robin Klein)
  • Her Boss of the pool, 1986 title page (Robin Klein) Aus CIP (Klein, Robin, 1936-)
  • AustLit, Feb. 28, 2006 (Klein, Robin, born Feb. 28, 1936, Kempsey, N.S.W.)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)7290
  • 000000073445
  • abv02043551
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc