Adrian Caesar
{{short description|Australian author and poet|bot=PearBOT 5}}
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| birth_date = 1955
| birth_place = Manchester, United Kingdom
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| occupation = Lecturer, writer and poet
| language = English
| nationality = Australian
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| education = B.A. Hons, PhD
| alma_mater = Reading University
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| notableworks = The White (1999)
| awards = Nettie Palmer Prize, 2000
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Adrian Caesar (born 1955) is an Australian author and poet.
Caesar was born in Manchester, United Kingdom and emigrated to Australia in 1982.{{Cite web
| title = Author Biography - Adrian Caesar
| publisher = Pandanus Books
| url = http://www.pandanusbooks.com.au/author_bios.php?searchterm=caesa_pan
| accessdate = 29 January 2010
| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160303174922/http://www.pandanusbooks.com.au/author_bios.php?searchterm=caesa_pan
| archive-date = 3 March 2016
| url-status = dead
}} He studied at Reading University and has held appointments at various Australian universities, including the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales' School of Humanities and Social Sciences.{{Cite web
| title = Staff Biography - Dr Adrian Caesar
| publisher = University of NSW
| url = http://hass.unsw.adfa.edu.au/staff/profiles/caesar.html
| accessdate = 29 January 2010}}
Writing
Caesar is the author of several books, including the prize-winning non-fiction novel The White based on the Antarctic exploration of Robert F. Scott and Douglas Mawson from 1911 to 1913. His later novel, The Blessing was long-listed for the Voss Literary Prize in 2016. His poems have been widely published and his 2005 poetry collection High Wire was shortlisted for the 2007 Judith Wright Prize.
=Bibliography=
==Novels==
- The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 (1999)
- The Blessing (2015)
==Collected poetry==
- Hunger Games (1996)
- Life Sentences (1998)
- The June Fireworks: New and Selected Poems (2001)
- High Wire (2005)
- Dark Cupboards New Rooms (2014)
==Non Fiction==
- Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class and ideology in the 1930s (1991)
- Taking it Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality and the War Poets (1993)
- Kenneth Slessor (1995)
Awards
The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911–1913
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