Rodney Hall Rodney Hall is one of Australia's finest writers. He left school in Brisbane on his sixteenth birthday and worked at various base grade retail and clerical jobs. He returned to the UK and Europe in 1958 with a view to staying pemanently. During what turned out to be a 9,000 kilometre walk around Europe, west and east, which took three years, he wrote two novels (one of which was lost), came to terms with himself-as he puts it-and committed to his ambition to live as a writer. On returning to Brisbane in 1961 he secured regular work with ABC radio as scriptwriter for schools education programs, supplementing his income by playing and teaching early music. Since then he has won two Miles Franklin Awards, his novels have been widely published and translated into many languages, and he has been twice presented with the gold medal of the Australian Literature Society. Read More Read Less