Thomas Keneally Schepisi's "The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" (1978) (based on his own novel) and played Father Marshall in the award-winning film "The Devil's Playground" (1976), also by Schepisi. In 1983, he was made an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO). He is an Australian Living Treasure. Keneally was a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council from 1985 to 1988 and President of the National Book Council from 1985 to 1989. Keneally was a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) where he taught the graduate fiction workshop for one quarter in 1985. From 1991 to
Emil Jakob Schindler commemorate the 20th anniversary of his death. Emil Jakob Schindler Emil Jakob Schindler (April 27, 1842 – August 9, 1892) was an Austrian landscape painter. His eldest daughter was the author and composer, Alma Mahler. He was born to a family of cotton spinning-mill operators that had been established in Fischamend, a village south of Vienna, since the 17th Century. His father, Julius Jakob Schindler (1814–1846), died of lung cancer when Emil was only four years old. His mother, Maria Anna (1816-1885) soon afterwards took him to Pressburg (Bratislava). Three years later, she married Second Lieutenant (soon Captain), Mathias Eduard