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Name	Elizabeth Harrower
Born	8 February, 1928 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Died	7 July, 2020 (aged 92) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Cause of Death	unknown
Related Entries	[View as tree] Waten, Judah Leon (friend) Tennant, Kylie (friend)
Occupation or Descriptor *	novelist (1951-1959) Overseas novelist (1960-1975) New South Wales, Australia short story writer (1965-1975) New South Wales, Australia
Awards	Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship (recipient, 1968) Australian Council for the Arts fellowship (recipient, 1974) Patrick White Literary Award (recipient, 1996) Voss Literary Prize (recipient, 2015)
Workplaces *	Sydney Morning Herald (newspaper) (reviewer, 1960)

* Dates are approximate

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