Colin Roderick

Colin Roderick CBE
Born	(1911-07-27)27 July 1911 Mount Morgan, Queensland
Died	16 June 2000(2000-06-16) (aged 88) Townsville, Queensland
Alma mater	University of Queensland
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Colin Arthur Roderick CBE (27 July 1911 – 16 June 2000) was an Australian writer, editor, academic and educator.^[1][2]

Colin Roderick was born in Mount Morgan, Queensland on 27 July, 1911.

He attended Bundaberg State School and then, while working as a school teacher, studied through the external studies programme at the University of Queensland, graduating in 1936 with a B.A. He later graduated from the same university with a B.Ed., an M.A., an M.Ed., and finally, in 1954, with a Ph.D. for which he wrote a thesis on Australian novelist Rosa Praed. For part of this period he belonged to the Australian Army.^[3]

Roderick worked as editor for the Australian publisher and bookseller Angus & Robertson from 1945 through 1965 and was the firm's director in 1961–65.^{[citation needed]}

During the 1950s, he played an "instrumental" role in the setting up of a chair of Australian literature at the University of Sydney.^[3] He also helped establish the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

In 1965, he was appointed as the inaugural professor of English at the James Cook University, in Townsville, Queensland.^[4] During this period, he set up the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS).^[5] The Colin Roderick Award, founded in 1967, is named for him.^[6]

After retiring, Roderick was made emeritus professor in English at James Cook University and subsequently received an honorary Litt.D. from that university and from the Université de Caen.

• 1966: CBE^[7]
• 1974: Gold Medal of the Australian Literature Society^[7]

• The Lady and the Lawyer, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1956.
• John Knatchbull from Quarterdeck to Gallows, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1963.
• Miles Franklin: Her Brilliant Career, Adelaide: Rigby, 1982.
• Leichhardt: The Dauntless Explorer, North Ryde: Angus & Robertson, 1988.
• Henry Lawson: A Life, North Ryde, N.S.W.: Angus & Robertson, 1991.
• Banjo Paterson: Poet by Accident, St. Leonards, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, 1993.

• The Australian Novel: A Historical Anthology, Sydney, William Brooks, 1945
• 20 Australian Novelists, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1947.
• Australian Round-Up : Stories From 1790 to 1950, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1953.
• Rose Paterson’s Illalong Letters (1873-1888), East Roseville: Kangaroo Press (Simon & Schuster, Australia), 2000.

• Henry Lawson: Collected Verse, Vol. I: 1885-1900, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967.
• Henry Lawson: Collected Verse, Vol. II: 1901-1909, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1969.
• Henry Lawson: Collected Verse, Vol. III: 1910-1922, Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1967.
• Henry Lawson: Letters, 1890-1922, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1970
• Henry Lawson: Collected Prose: Vol. I: Short Stories and Sketches, 1888-1922, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1972.
• Henry Lawson: Collected Prose: Vol. II: Autobiographical and Other Writings, 1887-1922, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1972.
• Henry Lawson: Collected Prose: Vol. III: Commentary, Sydney, Angus & Robertson, 1972
• Henry Lawson and His World: A Pictorial Biography (in preparation)

Roderick died in Townsville, Queensland on 16 June 2000.^{[citation needed]}

• Papers of Colin Roderick (manuscripts)