Australia Post is set to honour six Australian authors as living legends with a new stamp release scheduled for today. Peter Carey, Bryce Courtenay, Tom Keneally, David Malouf, Colleen McCullough and Tim Winton will each appear in two images on 55c stamps - one from the present and one from the past.
This release follows the 2009 Living Legends postage stamp release that honoured legends of the screen: Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Geoffrey Rush.
You can get further details of the various products in the release here.
This release follows the 2009 Living Legends postage stamp release that honoured legends of the screen: Cate Blanchett, Russell Crowe, Nicole Kidman and Geoffrey Rush.
You can get further details of the various products in the release here.
What a relief! I was horrified to get a letter from Australia the other day with a stamp of Russell Crowe in full Gladiator kit. Living in the UK, I am long used to snide remarks about Oz culture, and I hid the stamp fast....
(Just this week, when discussing Oz book sales with a Brit, I happened to mention that a certain book had sold 35,000 copies -- a quite respectable number for a work of literary fiction, even by English standards. The gentleman guffawed and said, 'Gosh! That that must represent the entire Australian reading public!')