Sandra Hall (writer)

Sandra Hall is an Australian author and journalist, best known as film reviewer for The Age and The Australian.[1]

History

Hall began her working life as a junior at The Sun, living at Woollahra and studying journalism at Sydney University at night. She wrote a few movie reviews for The Sun and The Australian, then in 1973 won a $6,000 Fellowship from the Literature Board[2] to gain overseas experience, and on her return from London settled down as The Bulletin's first regular film reviewer. In 1978 she was awarded a $10,000 fellowship for a year, to write a novel.[3] Around 1998 she was attracted to the Sydney Morning Herald.[4]

Recognition

Hall served as president of the Film Critics Circle of Australia 1991–1993.

Partial bibliography
Film and television
  • Supertoy: 20 years of television 1976 ISBN 0725102357
  • Critical Business: The New Australian Cinema in Review 1985 ISBN 0727020102[5]
  • Turning On, Turning Off: Australian television in the eighties 1981 ISBN 0726937347
  • Tabloid Man: The Life and Times of Ezra Norton[lower-alpha 1] 2008 ISBN 9780732282592
Novels

Notes
  1. "Sandra Hall is an accomplished journalist and her biography [of Norton] is as entertaining as it is easy to read"[6]

References
  1. "Sandra Hall". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 4 August 2023.
  2. "TV-Arts-Entertainment Literature board subsidies". The Canberra Times. Vol. 47, no. 13, 516. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 17 August 1973. p. 9. Retrieved 4 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. "Who's Doing What". Filmnews. Vol. 8, no. 2. New South Wales, Australia. 1 February 1978. p. 5. Retrieved 4 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. "Sandra Hall, journalist and author". Australian Writers' Centre.
  5. "Critical overview a valuable addition to writings on Australian film". The Canberra Times. Vol. 59, no. 18, 170. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 29 June 1985. p. 3. Retrieved 4 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
  6. Lynette Sheridan Burns (24 June 2009). "Sandra Hall — Journalist and author". Global Media Journal (Australian edition). Retrieved 4 August 2023.
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