// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did "Our Sunshine" say to the sun? You're a bright spot.
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| Author | Robert Drewe |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan, Australia |
| Publication date | 1991 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 189 |
| ISBN | 0330273264 |
| Preceded by | Fortune |
| Followed by | The Drowner |
Our Sunshine is a 1991 novel about Ned Kelly by Australian writer Robert Drewe.[1]
It later served as a source of information for the 2003 film Ned Kelly, directed by Gregor Jordan and starring Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush and Naomi Watts.[2]
Awards and nominations
[edit]- 1992 shortlisted NBC Banjo Awards — NBC Banjo Award for Fiction[3]
- 1992 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ White, Duncan (29 February 2020). "Our kids live with the notion of apocalypse". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 1 November 2025 – via EBSCOhost.
- ↑ Zion, Lawrie (30 April 2002). "Watts runs with "Kelly" gang in Aussie biopic". Hollywood Reporter – International Edition. Retrieved 1 November 2025 – via EBSCOhost.
- ↑ "Austlit — Our Sunshine by Robert Drewe — Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
- ↑ ""Five vie for literary award"". The Canberra Times, 12 May 1992, p4. Retrieved 8 November 2025.
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