Record ID:
35409194 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19170824
  • Auckland
Death:
  • 20101214
  • Sydney, New South Wales
Associated with:
  • New Zealand
  • Australia
Occupations:
  • author
Used for:
  • Niland, Ruth, 1917-2010
  • Park, Rosina Ruth Lucia, 1917-2010
  • Park, Rosina Lucia, 1917-2010
Notes:
  • Ruth Park AM (born 24 August, possibly 1923) is a New Zealand-born author, who has spent most of her life in Australia. She was born in Auckland, and her family later moved to Te Kuiti further south in the North Island of New Zealand, where they lived in isolated areas. Her first novel was The Harp in the South (1948) - a story of Irish slum life in Sydney, which was translated into 10 languages. (Some critics called it a cruel fantasy because as far as they were concerned there were no slums in Sydney.) But Ruth and D'Arcy did live in Sydney slums at Surry Hills. She followed that up with Poor Man's Orange (1949). She also wrote Missus (1985) and other novels, as well as a long-running Australian children's radio show and scripts for film and TV. She created The Muddle-Headed Wombat series of children's books. Her autobiographies are A Fence Around the Cuckoo (1992) and Fishing in the Styx (1993). She also wrote a novel based in New Zealand, One-a-pecker, Two-a-pecker (1957), about gold mining in Otago (later renamed The Frost and The Fire). Park has received awards in Australia and internationally.
  • Wikipedia, 17 december 2010 Life dates confirmed: born 1917 and died 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Park
  • Sydney morning herald, Dec. 17, 2010, via WWW, Dec. 16, 2010 (Ruth Park; b. Rosina Ruth Lucia Park, Auckland, August 24, 1917 (though many years are given, her family says this is correct); m. D’Arcy Niland; d. 2010; author of novels including Harp in the south, children’s books and radio plays, autobiographies, and The companion guide to Sydney)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)43286
  • abv00353610
  • 000000411439
  • (AU-CaAIA)XX176152
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL
Authentication code:
  • anuc