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Manuscript Name | Papers of Laurie Clancy |
Manuscript Number | MSS 052 |
Last Updated | August 2021 |
Extent | 98 cm (7 boxes) |
Location | Special Collections, UNSW Canberra |
Abstract | This collection comprises manuscript papers and related material produced or accumulated by Laurie Clancy |
Literary
The papers contain drafts, galleys and proofs, together with contracts and correspondence concerning Clancy's works A collapsible man (1975), The wife specialist : stories (1979), Perfect love : a novel (1985), Xavier Herbert (1981), The novels of Vladimir Nabokov (1984), City to city (1989) and 'Love and marriage'. Laurie Clancy is a novelist, critic and short story writer. A collapsible man (1975) shared the National Book Council Award for fiction in 1975.
1969-1989
Laurence James Clancy was born 2 December 1942 in Melbourne, Victoria. He was educated by the Christian Brothers and the University of Melbourne. He subsequently taught at La Trobe University from 1967 until 1996.
Clancy is the author of numerous study guides and other educational material, including critical studies of Xavier Herbert and Vladimir Nabokov, and A reader's guide to Australian fiction (1992). His first novel, A collapsible man (1975), won the National Book Council Award. He has since published several collections of short stories and more novels, consolidating his literary reputation with more awards.
Since leaving academic life in 1996, Clancy has been writer-in-residence at several institutions and worked as a freelance reviewer.
Clancy has received the following awards:
FAW John Morrison Short Story Award, 1974: joint winner
FAW ANA Literature Award, 1983: winner for Perfect love : a novel
National Book Council Award for Australian Literature, 1975: joint winner for A collapsible man.
References:
AustLit : The Resource for Australian Literature, December 2004.
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This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
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Papers of Laurie Clancy, Special Collections, UNSW Canberra, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, MSS 052, Box [Number], Folder [Number].
The collection was acquired from Laurie Clancy in one instalment in 1987.
Australian authors, Australian literature
Laurie Clancy 1942-
Authors
Folder 1
Annotated typescript draft of A collapsible man (1975)
Folder 2
Typescript draft of A collapsible man (1975)
Folder 3
Typescript draft of A collapsible man (1975)
Folder 4
Typescript draft of A collapsible man (1975)
Folder 5
Annotated typescript draft of A collapsible man (1975)
Folder 6
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'A question of principle', 'Black Albert', 'Pussy love', 'Monologue', 'O'Donohue's first' (retitled 'Forrester's first'), 'Forrester's first', 'Drummy' (retitled 'Cliffy'), 'The Macbeth performance', 'Mother Angela' (retitled 'Mother Raymond'), ['The criminal'], 'The academic dinner party' for The wife specialist : stories (1979)
Folder 7
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'The duel', 'The wife specialist', 'Characterisation deleted', 'Living alone', 'Knives like dreams' (retitled 'The goose girl'), 'Spinning Jenny', 'Splitting up' (retitled 'Civilised people') and 'The writer' for The wife specialist (1979)
Folder 8
Annotated typescript draft of The wife specialist (1979)
Folder 9
Page proofs of The wife specialist (1979)
Folder 10
Manuscript and annotated typescript draft of Xavier Herbert (1981)
Folder 11
Annotated typescript draft of Xavier Herbert (1981)
Folder 12
Page proofs of Xavier Herbert (1981), and guides to indexing
Folder 13
Annotated typescript draft of Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 14
Newspaper clippings and research material for Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 15
Research material for Perfect love : a novel (1985) and a typescript draft of 'Matters'
Folder 16
Typescript of Xavier Herbert (1981)
Folder 17
Typescript draft of Christina Stead's The man who loved children and For love alone (1981)
Folder 18
Typescript draft of Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 19
Manuscript and typescript draft of 'Matters' and typescript draft of Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 20
Annotated typescript draft of The novels of Vladimir Nabokov (1984)
Folder 21
Page proofs of The novels of Vladimir Nabokov (1984)
Folder 22
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'Ordeal' (retitled 'First love'), 'Hitch-hiking' and 'Shame' (retitled 'Guilt') for City to city (1989) plus manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'Swimming', 'Commitment' and 'Lunching at Traddles'
Folder 23
Annotated typescript drafts of 'The great wall of China', 'Mothers' (retitled 'My first kangaroo'), 'How's the little girl?', 'Uncle Dave's funeral' and 'Starting price' (retitled 'Gambling') for City to city (1989)
Folder 24
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'Cunning linguists', 'Flo', 'How I nearly got to meet Norman Mailer', A man of culture and The mugger for City to city (1989)
Folder 25
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of 'Living with the de Stoops', 'The revolution will not be televised', 'The astronaut in hibernation' (retitled 'The astronaut returns to Earth'), 'The richest man in the world' (retitled 'In search of Hugh Howard Hunter') and 'On being stood up by a publishers' editor' (retitled 'Now we may begin') for City to city (1989) and 'The life to write'
Folder 26
Manuscript and annotated typescript drafts of unpublished short stories
Folder 27
Annotated typescript and photocopied typescript drafts of articles and short stories by Laurie Clancy, Patricia Edgar, Albert Moran, Margaret Johnson, Rosemary Creswell, Virginia Duigan, Ian Robinson, Craig McGregor, Colin Talbot and Jack Clancy
Folder 28
Manuscript and annotated typescript draft of 'Love and Marriage - A Comedy of Manners'
Folder 29
Annotated typescript draft of 'Love and Marriage - A Comedy of Manners'
Folder 30
Typescript draft of 'Love and Marriage - A Comedy of Manners'
Folder 31
Typescript draft of 'Love and Marriage - A Comedy of Manners'
Folder 32
Correspondence from Tim Curnow of Curtis Brown (Aust) Pty Ltd and publishers 1979-1987
Folder 33
Correspondence from The Age, Meanjin Quarterly, Island Magazine, Overland and publishers, 1970-1987
Folder 34
Correspondence, 1969-1987, including letters of Thea Astley, Carmel Bird, Geoffrey Blainey, Bob Brissenden, Damien Broderick, Bob Burns, Peter Carey, Jon Cleary, Geoffrey Dutton, Beverley Farmer, Ross Fitzgerald, Katherine Gallagher, Helen Garner, Xavier Herbert, Jack Hibberd, Evan Jones, Rhys Graham, Christopher Koch, S. Liberman,
Folder 35
Correspondence, 1969-1987, including letters of Brian Matthews, Craig McGregor, Michelle Nayman, David Malouf, Bruce Pascoe, Peter Porter, William Lambe, Tom Shapcott, Robin Sheiner, Christina Stead, Norman Talbot
Folder 36
List of material sent to Special Collections (copy in Clancy correspondence file)
Folder 37
Galley proofs of Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 38
Galley proofs of Perfect love : a novel (1985)
Folder 39
[Folio 3 which is listed in original handwritten finding aid cannot be located]