John Patrick O'Grady (9 October 1907 - 14 January 1981) was an Australian writer. His works include the comic novel They're a Weird Mob (1957) and the poem The Integrated Adjective, sometimes known as Tumba-bloody-rumba. His son, also named John O'Grady, was at one point the head of situation comedy at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.[1]
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Pseudonym
O'Grady chose to write under a variety of pseudonyms, most famously as Nino Culotta for his books They're a Weird Mob, Cop This Lot, Gone Fishin ', and Gone Gougin' . Other examples include No Kava For Johnny, which is published under O'Grady's name, but contains a preface from the author claiming that the book had in fact been written by the eponymous character, Johnny.
Works
O'Grady's numerous works were originally published in hardback by Ure Smith with comic illustrations; many have frequently been re-issued by other publishing houses, generally facsimile editions in paperback.
- They're a Weird Mob (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1957) and its sequels,
- Cop This Lot (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1960)
- Gone Fishin' (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1962)
- Gone Gougin' (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1975)
- No Kava for Johnny (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1961) illustrated by 'wep'
- The Things They Do To You (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1963)
- Aussie English: An Explanation of the Australian Idiom (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1965)
- Ladies and Gentlemen (with Douglass Baglin) (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1966)
- Gone Troppo (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1968)
- O'Grady Sez (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1969)
- So Sue Me! (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1970)
- Are You Irish or Normal? (as by Sean O'Grada) (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1970)
- Aussie Etiket; or, Doing Things the Aussie Way (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1971)
- It's Your Shout, Mate!: Aussie pubs and Aussie beers (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1972)
- Smokey Joe the Fish-eater (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1972)
- Survival in the Doghouse (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1973)
- Now Listen, Mate! [re-issue of So sue me!] (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1974)
- There Was A Kid: An Autobiography, Part One (Sydney: Ure Smith, 1977)
- Down Under To Up Over (with Molly O'Grady) (Sydney: Lansdowne Press, 1980)
Aussie Etiket was translated into Japanese as Ōsutoraria-ryū Echiketto: Oretachi Dattara Kōsuru Ne (Tōkyō : Kindai Bungeisha, 1993)
A collection of the papers of O'Grady, ranging from 1942-1986, are available in manuscript form at the National Library of Australia, Canberra.
See also
References
- ABC shop
- Human Rights Award and Medals (Retrieved 11-August=2007)
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