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Masters, Olga, 1919-1986
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- Masters, Olga Meredith, 1919-1986
- Lawler, Olga Meredith, 1919-1986
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Dates of existence
1919-1986
History
Olga Meredith Lawler was born in Pambula, NSW, in 1919. She started her career as a journalist at the Cobargo Chronicle. In 1940 she married Charles Masters and over the following twenty years, they lived in New South Wales country towns and had a family of seven children. Olga Masters continued working as a journalist for the Northern Star in Lismore and later for the Manly Daily, the Land and the Sydney Morning Herald. She began her ficton-writing career in 1975. Her first collection, The Home Girls (1982), won a National Book Council Award. This was followed by Loving Daughters (1984), A Long Time Dying (1985), and Amy's Children (1987). Her last collection, The Rose Fancier and her playscript The Working Man's Castle were both published in 1988. A collection of her journalism, Reporting Home, was published posthumously in 1990. The University of Queensland Press published the Collected Stories of Olga Masters in 1996.
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Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, FF, 12-Jun-2020
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Sources
Susan Lever (2012). 'Masters, Olga Meredith (1919-1986)' in Australian Dictionary of Biography, accessed online 12-Jun-2020.
Author entry, AustLit, accessed online 12-Jun-2020.
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Revised with other forms of name, updated history, authority record identifier and sources, FF, 12-Jun-2020.