Randolph Stow

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Julian Randolph Stow (born 28 November 1935) is an acclaimed Australian writer.

Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, he attended Guildford Grammar School and University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and University of Leeds. He has also worked on an aboriginal mission as an anthropologist, used as background for To the Islands and as a patrol officer in the Trobriand Islands, where he suffered a severe attack of malaria. He used this experience in Visitants. For many years he has lived in Suffolk in England, his ancestral county, using traditional tales for the basis of The Girl as Green as Elderflowers. He wrote libretti for theatrical works by Peter Maxwell Davies.

His novel To the Islands won the Miles Franklin Award in 1958. He was awarded the Patrick White Award in 1979.

Because he is a local writer of some standing, a considerable number of his poems are listed in the State Library of Western Australia on line catologue [1] with indications where they have been anthologised.