Barry Oakley

Barry Oakley
Barry Oakley
Born	Barry Kingham Oakley; 24 February 1931 (age 93); Melbourne, Australia
Nationality	Australian
Education	Christian Brothers College, St Kilda
Alma mater	University of Melbourne

Barry Kingham Oakley (born 24 February 1931)^[1] is an Australian writer.^[2]

Biography

Born in Melbourne, Oakley was educated at Christian Brothers College, St Kilda, and the University of Melbourne.^[1] He was a secondary school teacher in Victoria from 1955 to 1962, and also lectured in humanities at RMIT University in 1963. He worked as an advertising copywriter and for the Department of Overseas Trade before his first novel, A Wild Ass of a Man, was published in 1967. He was joint winner of the Captain Cook Bicentenary Literary Award for his 1971 novel Let's Hear it for Prendergast. His early plays were performed at La Mama Theatre in Carlton.^[3]

From 1988 to 1997, Oakley was literary editor of The Australian newspaper.^[1]

Plays

From the Desk of Eugene Flockhart (1966)
Witzenhausen, Where Are You? (1968)
A Lesson in English (1976)
It's a Chocolate World
Cullity on Furniture
The Feet of Daniel Mannix
Beware of Imitations
Bedfellows (1975)
The Ship's Whistle (1978)
Marsupials (1979)
Scanlan (1980)
Beware of Imitations (1985)
Music (2012)

Novels

A Wild Ass of a Man (1967)
A Salute to the Great McCarthy (1970) – filmed as The Great Macarthy (1975)
Let's Hear it for Prendergast (1971)
Craziplane (1989)
Don't Leave Me (2002)

Non-fiction

Minitudes: Diaries 1974-1997 (2000)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Who's Who in Australia (2010)
^ Luke Slattery, "10 questions: Barry Oakley, author, 81" The Australian, 15 December 2012. Retrieved 30 March 2016.
- Graeme Blundell, "Wittily irascible playwright back on stage in 'a late efflorescence'", The Australian 9 November 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2013
^ Oakley, Barry, AustLit, 9 October 2008.