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- 1989-1995 (Creation)
- 1977 (Creation)
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2 items, 1 folder.
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Gwen Harwood is one of Australia's best-known poets. She was born in Brisbane in 1920 and lived there until her marriage in 1945, when she moved to Hobart, Tasmania. Harwood's poetry and critical writing appeared regularly in Australian literary journals from the 1960s. She published eight books of poetry. In 1989 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to literature. She wrote under the names of Francis Geyer, Walter Lehmann, Miriam Stone and T.F. Kline. She died in 1995.
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Novelist, poet and literary critic John Harwood was born in 1946 in Hobart, Tasmania, to poet Gwen Harwood and linguist Frank William (Bill) Harwood. He married his first wife, Jeanie Deprose, in 1966. Harwood attended the University of Tasmania, as well as Cambridge University on a scholarship, then worked as Head of the School of English and Drama at Flinders University, Adelaide. He married his second wife, Robin F. Haines, in 1986. He left the post at Flinders University in 1997 to focus on writing. In 2005, Harwood's debut novel was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and won the International Horror Guild Award for Best First Novel.
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Awards bestowed upon Gwen Harwood, including a Fellowship of Australian Writers Award and the Order of Australia, and documents, one photograph and ephemera related to the Order of Australia Award.
Box 2
Item 1
Fellowship of Australian Writers Robert Lee Frost medallion (now known as the Christopher Brennan Award) awarded to Gwen Harwood in 1977, 9 cm diameter.
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Item 1
Order of Australia set of decorations in fabric-lined medal case, 21 x 17 cm; includes breast badge with riband, ribbon bar, miniature of breast badge and lapel badge.
Folder 3
Honours and Award, 12 June 1989; citation appointing Dr Gwendoline Nessie Harwood an Officer in the General Division of the Order of Australia for service to literature, particularly as a poet and librettist. 1 leaf, 1989.
Certificate of admission as an Officer of the General Division of the Order of Australia presented to Dr Gwendoline Nessie Harwood, dated 12 June 1989 and signed by Governor-General Bill Hayden.
One colour photograph of Gwen Harwood receiving her award, 1989.
Photocopy of newspaper cutting from The Mercury of an article and photograph of Gwen Harwood receiving the Order of Australia, 12 Jun 1989.
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Unrestricted access.
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In copyright. Can be reproduced for personal research and study. For other uses see About copyright. Please attribute the Fryer Library.
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- English
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Box 2 Item 1. Parcel 1 Item 1, Folder 3.
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- Harwood, Gwen (Subject)
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Created, Kymberley Bax, 12-Apr-2024.