Hugh Lunn

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For information about another writer named Hugh Kingsmill Lunn (1889–1949) who used the pseudonym Hugh Kingsmill, see Hugh Kingsmill.

Hugh Duncan Lunn is an Australian journalist and author, born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1941. Lunn served his journalism cadetship with The Courier-Mail. Upon completing his cadetship, he worked overseas for seven years. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters, before returning to Australia to become Queensland editor for The Australian. Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers a number of times. Finding himself without employment at the age of 37, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood.

Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books. The best known of these is Over The Top With Jim. Published in 1990 Over The Top... tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egeroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egeroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins".

Lunn is also famous for coining the phrase "there is no such thing as an ex-Queenslander", which he first used in an attempt to convince rugby league authorities of the viability of a Rugby League State of Origin series.

[edit] Awards

  • Walkley Award (1978) (for various feature articles dealing with Queensland)
  • Walkley Award (1979) (for "The Maroon Avengers")
  • National Press Club Award (for "The Maroon Avengers")

[edit] Publishing Record

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