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'This beautiful fable-like story ranges from the rigid routines of the Imperial Dancers in pre-revolutionary Russia to exile in Australia at the outbreak of World War two. Russian-born Galina, who has danced for the tsar and for Diaghilev's famous ballet in Paris, operates a highly disciplined dance school - an outpost of Imperial Russia - in the dusty Adelaide of the 1940s and 1950s. From this humble base she goes on to form what becomes Australia's first professional ballet troupe. traveling the country it attracts a beautiful, talented young man. these two enact the story of the snow queen - the stern, beautiful woman who picks out a boy for herself, piercing his heart with a spike of ice, only to have her own pierced cruelly in return.' (Synopsis)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175) -
Dance and Postcolonialism in Mardi McConnochie's The Snow Queen
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 77-86, notes 240-242) -
Home Grown Heroes
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 27 May vol. 121 no. 6374 2003; (p. 44)
— Review of Shanghai Dancing 2003 single work novel ; The Pirate Queen 2003 single work novel ; Fantastic Street 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel ; Due Preparations for the Plague 2003 single work novel -
Follow-Up Novel a Killer
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2003; (p. 11)
— Review of The Hamilton Case 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Not Helping the Cause
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 251 2003; (p. 51)
— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel
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The Fine Pointe of Fading Glory
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12-13 April 2003; (p. 13)
— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Ballet Queens and Their Colourful Lives
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 18-19 April 2003; (p. 5)
— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Snow Queen Not So Hot
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 3 May 2003; (p. 8)
— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Not Helping the Cause
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 251 2003; (p. 51)
— Review of The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Follow-Up Novel a Killer
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 10 May 2003; (p. 11)
— Review of The Hamilton Case 2003 single work novel ; The Snow Queen : A Novel 2003 single work novel -
Dance and Postcolonialism in Mardi McConnochie's The Snow Queen
2004
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Journal of Australian Studies , no. 80 2004; (p. 77-86, notes 240-242) -
Reading Groups and Creative Writing Courses : The Year's Work in Fiction
2004
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 49 no. 2004; (p. 164-175)
Awards
- 2004 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
- Adelaide, South Australia,
- 1940s
- 1970s