Janette Turner Hospital

Janette Turner Hospital

female, 67 years old
Australian women writer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Last Magician, Queensland University, Charade, Kelvin Grove Teachers College…PatrickWhiteAward
Janette Turner Hospital (née Turner is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer.
Thea Astley

Thea Astley

female, deceased (2004)
Miles Franklin Awards, Australian women writer, Macquarie University, byron bay, Short story writer, teacher…Miles Franklin Award, PatrickWhiteAward
Thea Astley (August 25 1925 - August 17 2004) was an Australian novelist and short story writer. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles...
Fay Zwicky

Fay Zwicky

female, 76 years old
Australian women writer, University of Western Australia, Australian, Academic, Short story writer, poet…PatrickWhiteAward
Fay Zwicky (born 1933) is a contemporary Australian poet and academic. Fay Zwicky was born and grew up in Melbourne where she began writing as a...
Randolph Stow

Randolph Stow

male, 74 years old
Former student of Guildford Grammar School, Geraldton, Western Australia, The Girl Green as Elderflower, Julian Randolph Stow, Miles Franklin Award, PatrickWhiteAward
Julian Randolph Stow (born 28 November 1935) is an acclaimed Australian writer. Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, he attended Guildford Grammar...

Robert Gray

male
poet, Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century, New South Wales Premier's Award, The Age Poetry Book of the Year, The Younger Australian Poet, Victorian Premier's Award…PatrickWhiteAward
Robert Gray (b. 1945) is an Australian poet. Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and was educated in a country town on the north coast of New South...
Geoff Page

Geoff Page

male, 69 years old
Darker and Lighter, Biographer, canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Geoffrey Donald Page, PatrickWhiteAward
Geoffrey Donald Page (born July 7, 1940) is an Australian poet. He has held residencies at numerous academic, military and political institutions,...
Dal Stivens

Dal Stivens

male, deceased (1997)
novelist, Australian, Naturalist, Short story writer, the tramp, Miles Franklin Award…PatrickWhiteAward
Dal Stivens was an Australian writer who lived from 1911 to 1997. After serving in the army during the war, from 1944 to 1949 Stivens was on the...
Amy Witting

Amy Witting

female, deceased (2001)
poet, Australian women writer, sydney morning herald, The Age Book of the Year, University of Sydney, Member of the Order of Australia…The Age Book of the Year Award, Miles Franklin Award, PatrickWhiteAward
Amy Witting was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Levick (nèe Fraser). Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of A...
Rosemary Dobson

Rosemary Dobson

female, 89 years old
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson, Australian women writer, From Sydney, Australian poetry, Frensham School, Grace Leven Prize…PatrickWhiteAward
Rosemary de Brissac Dobson (b. 18 June 1920) is an award winning Australian poet, who is also significant as an illustrator, editor and...

Nancy Phelan

female, 96 years old
Australian women writer, Louise Mack, Nancy Eleanor Phelan, PatrickWhiteAward, memoirist, Sydney, New South Wales
Nancy Eleanor Phelan (born 2 August 1913) is an Australian writer. Born and raised in Sydney, New South Wales, Phelan spent the years from 1938 to...