Nicholas Hasluck

Background

Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra. His father, Sir Paul Hasluck was a minister in the Federal Government under Robert Menzies, and was later appointed Governor-General of Australia.

Career

Nicholas went to school at Scotch College, Perth, and Canberra Grammar School, before studying law at the University of Western Australia (1963) and Oxford (1966). On 1 May 2000, Hasluck was appointed as a judge on the Supreme Court of Western Australia, which is the highest ranking court in the Australian State of Western Australia. Hasluck started writing at school, producing poetry and essays for the school magazine and was first professionally published in 1964 with a poem appearing in Westerly literary magazine.

Hasluck"s books fall into two categories, which he describes as "moral thriller genre and satire", with the thriller interesting him the most.

He cites the American writers William Faulkner, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer and Gore Vidal as being his main literary influences.

Achievements

• He was deputy chair of the Australia Council from 1978 to 1982 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia (Department of Administration and Management). In 2006, Hasluck became Chairperson of the Commonwealth Writers" Prize.

Works

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  • A Grain of Truth
  • Truant State
  • The Bellarmine Jug by Nicholas Hasluck (1985-02-28)
  • The Bellarmine Jug
  • Our Man K

Connections

Partner:

Robert Holmes