Thiele,+Colin

RESEARCH SCAFFOLD  || [] || He then completed a degree at the University of Adelaide in 1941, followed by a course at Adelaide Teachers College in 1942. He served with the RAAF in the Northern Territory and New Guinea from 1942-1945, and then completed a Diploma of Education on his return. During World War II he served with the RAAF in northern Australia and New guinu. On 17 March 1945 he married Rhonda Gladys Gill in Adelaide. They had two daughters. || [] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. || During the 1960s Thiele started writing children's novels, often describing life in rural South Australia. One of Colin's most influncial things are in his most famous book storm boy is a pelican. || Storm BOY || [] || [] ||  ||  During the 1960s Thiele started writing children's novels, often describing life in rural South Australia. His first being The Sun on the Stubble. Other well know novels were Blue Fin, The Fire in the Stone, Storm Boy, his most famous, The Valley Between, which earned him the Australian Book of the Year Award in 1982. In 1951 he was the South Australian winner in the World Short Story Quest. In 1967 and 1968 Thiele won the Hans Christian Anderson Award. In 1979 and again in 1986 he won the Austrian State Prize for Children's Books. Other awards included 2 Commonwealth of Australia Jubilee Federal Arts prizes, the Grace Levin Poetry Prize and the Dromkeen Medal in 1997. In 1973, after eight years as Principal of Wattle Park Teachers College he became director of the Murray Park College of Advanced Education. He later returned to Wattle Park to develop its Teachers Centre. During his time at Wattle Park he, and A. Burfield, wrote The Benedictions of Benjamin Gates, recording their experiences while teaching at Unley High where Gates was headmaster for 25 years. Thiele was director of Wattle Park Teachers Centre from 1974 until his retirement. || [] || [] || Well known persons working at the same time. ||  John F. Kennedy,prisendent of the united states. The Beetles, a band. Victor chang, tried to improve heart tranplant surgery and helped invent a artificial heart. Denis Lillie, one of Australia's best bowlers for cricket. Dawn frazer,australian swimming great. || [] || Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. ||  His literary output have covered many different fields, among them poetry, biography, short stories, novels, drama, local history, radio scripts, children's literature and educational works. He contributed to other authors' books and numerous magazines. He was one of the first to have his work published in the Adelaide based magazine, Angry Penguins. A number of his books have been adapted for films or TV series. || [] || [] || Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. ||  The South Australian Government has established the Colin Thiele Literature Scholarship to assist young South Australian writers, under 26 years of age, to further develop their professional development and training. The University of South Australia has named its Library after him. The 2008 Writers' Week was dedicated to Thiele, who had been associated with this event from its earliest days. At the start of 2008, two primary schools of the Aberfoyle Park Education Centre, [|Heysen] and [|Spence], amalgamated to form the Thiele Primary School. Near Tailem Bend there are Thiele's Landing and the Thiele Road. Lately he had one of South Australia's Highways named after him, as had [|Goyder] and [|R.M. Williams]. It has also been proposed to build a memorial to Thiele, on land donated by former Supreme Court judge Christopher Legoe, at the Coorong to honour Thiele's environmental concern for the area and other places in South Australia. || [] || [] ||
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