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'The Sundowners' film -

'The Sundowners' was written in 1952 by Jon Cleary, from Sydney, and follows an Irish immigrant's coming of age in the outback.

The film adaptation, a partly Aussie production, starring Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum was released in 1960 and nominated for five Oscars.

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'Oscar and Lucinda' book - 'Oscar and Lucinda' was written by Peter Carey, from Bacchus Marsh, VIC, in 1988 and won the Man Booker Prize in the same year.

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'Oscar and Lucinda' film - The Aussie-Brit production starring Cate Blanchett and Ralph Fiennes was nominated for a Best Costume Design Oscar.

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'Wake In Fright' novel - The first book by Sydeny-born Kenneth Cook, written in 1961, follows a school teacher stuck in a town he doesn't know after a drunken night.

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'Wake In Fright' movie - Starring Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond and Chips Rafferty, this classic piece of Australian film from 1971 was made on a shoestring budget and remade in 2017 as a series.

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'Mary Poppins' children's books - P. L. Travers, from Maryborough, QLD, wrote a series of children's books between 1934 and 1988 that would later become known around the world.

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'Mary Poppins' Disney production - The 1964 Disney movie was one of the most succesful films of all time, starring Julie Andrews and D. Van Dyke. A version starring Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep and Ben Whishaw came to cinemas in 2018.

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'The Dressmaker' book - Rosalie Ham's first novel, published in 2000, follows a young woman taken away from her mother in rural Australia and faces false criminal accusations, just like her mother.

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'The Dressmaker' film - The 2015 Australian movie starring Kate Winslet, Judy Davis and Liam Hemsworth won numerous awards.

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'The Book Thief' book - Markus Zusak, from Sydney, wrote 'The Book Thief' in 2005 about foster children in Germany exposed to the Nazi regime. 

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'The Book Thief' film - The 2013 movie starring Sophie Nélisse, Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson was nominated for an Oscar in Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures. 

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'He Died with a Felafel in His Hand' book - John Birmingham wrote this non-fiction novel in 1994 about living in shared houses in Brisbane and a deceased heroin addict the roommates find.

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'He Died with a Felafel in His Hand' movie - The 2001 movie starring Noah Taylor and Emily Hamilton won Best Feature Film at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival.

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'Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison' book - Written by Charles Shaw, from South Melbourne in 1952, the book follows a marooned marine on a Pacific island in WWII, where he encounters a nun.

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'Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison' movie - The 1957 film starring Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr was nominated for Oscars in Best Actress and Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

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'An Indecent Obsession' - Colleen McCullough, from Wellington, NSW, wrote 'An Indecent Obsession' in 1981 and was made into a 1985 film starring Wendy Hughes and Gary Sweet about attraction between a doctor and a patient in a mental facility.

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'The Year of Living Dangerously' novel - This 1978 book by Hobart-born Christopher Koch, follows an Aussie journalist in Indonesia during a time of political upheaval.

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'The Year of Living Dangerously' movie - This 1982 film starring Mel Gibson, Sigourney Weaver and Linda Hunt is among the most successful, classic Aussie films.

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Best Supporting Actress - Linda Hunt won an Oscar for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her part in 'The Year of Living Dangerously'.

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How Aussies see themselves - The book outlined how Aussies differentiate themselves from Brits after WWII, looking to Eastern philosophy on the fluidity of right and wrong.

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'Schindler's List' book - The novel, called 'Schindler's Ark', was written by Sydney-born Thomas Keneally in 1982.

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Man Booker Prize for Fiction - The book won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction the same year it was released.

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'Schindler's List' movie - Steven Spielberg directed this epic film adaptation in 1993.

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Starring - The movie stars Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes and Ben Kingsley.

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Oscars - The film won seven Oscars: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published, Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Film Editing and Best Music, Original Score.

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Holocaust survivor - Thomas Keneally, the author, interviewed a holocaust survivor for the historical fiction's inspiration.

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Oskar Schindler - 'Schindler's List' follows Oskar Schindler, a Nazi party industrialist who is believed to have saved 1,200 Jews during the holocaust.

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Monetary success - The movie is likely the most financially successful of any Aussie book-to-film adaptation, grossing $221 million.

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