What is Bryce Courtenay?
{{Infobox writer | name = Bryce Courtenay | birth_name = Arthur Bryce Courtenay | image = Author and ex-creative director, Bryce Courtenay took a seat in Yahoo!'s Big Idea Chair.jpg | imagesize = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1933|08|14|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Johannesburg]], [[South Africa]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|2012|11|22|1933|08|14|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Canberra]], Australia | occupation = Novelist | nationality = South African-Australian | period = 1989&ndash;2012 | genre = [[Bildungsroman]], [[historical novel]] | notableworks = | awards = {{awd|[[British Book Awards]]|1990|[[The Power of One]]}}{{awd|APA [[Who Weekly]] Reader's Choice Award|1998|[[Tommo & Hawk]]}}{{awd|APA [[Who Weekly]] Reader's Choice Award|1999|[[Jessica (novel)|Jessica]]}}{{awd|APA [[Who Weekly]] Reader's Choice Award|2000|[[Jessica (novel)|Jessica]]}} | signature = | website = {{url|http://www.brycecourtenay.com}} }} '''Arthur Bryce Courtenay''' AM (14 August 1933 – 22 November 2012) was a South African-Australian novelist and one of Australia's most commercially successful authors. ==Awards and honours== * [[Order of Australia|Member of the Order of Australia (AM)]]: 1995; in recognition of service to advertising and marketing to the community and as an author<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=871132&search_type=quick&showInd=true |title=COURTENAY, Arthur Bryce |work=Australian Honours |publisher=[[Commonwealth of Australia]] |date=1995-06-12 |access-date=2010-11-05 |archive-date=2011-06-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629132938/http://www.itsanhonour.gov.au/honours/honour_roll/search.cfm?aus_award_id=871132&search_type=quick&showInd=true |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Doctor of Letters|Doctor of Letters (D.Litt)]] ([[Honorary degree|honoris causa]]): 2005; from the [[University of Newcastle (Australia)|University of Newcastle]]<ref>{