People Australia

Life Summary [details]

Birth

15 February, 1930
Fitzroy, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Death

1 April, 2020 (aged 90)
Caloundra, Queensland, Australia

Religious Influence

Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.

• Catholic

Education

• Northcote High School (Melbourne)
• University of Queensland

Occupation or Descriptor

• academic
• airman/woman
• literary scholar
• poet
• schoolteacher

Awards

• Dame Mary Gilmore medal
• Grace Leven prize
• Patrick White Literary Award
• Christopher Brennan award (Fellowship of Australian Writers)
• Officer of the Order of Australia
• Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal (Mildura Writers Festival, Vic)
• Centenary Medal

Workplaces

• Downlands College (Toowoomba, Qld)
• University of Southern Queensland (english)