Olga Masters

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Olga Masters née Lawler (28 May 1919 – 27 September 1986) was an Australian journalist and fiction writer.

Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales.^[1] Her early life was characterised by the poverty of the depression era, her family moving around the South Coast region in search of work. Masters herself began working as a journalist at the age of 15 on the Cobargo Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the south coastal area between Bega and Moruya. She later worked for local newspapers all over New South Wales including, latterly, The Manly Daily and The Sydney Morning Herald.

At the age of 18 she moved to Sydney working in office jobs and meeting Charles Masters, whom she married in 1940. They had seven children including (not in order) journalist Chris Masters, rugby league coach and journalist Roy Masters, film maker Quentin Masters, radio broadcaster Ian Masters and media producers Sue Masters and Deb Masters.

Having started to write creatively late in life Masters' quantity of published work is small but her impact was disproportionate in that her style and writings about writing inspired many others to take up the craft.

Masters died in Sydney in 1986.

[edit] Bibliography

Short stories

• The Home Girls. (1982) Review
• A Long Time Dying. (1985)
• The Rose Fancier. (1988)
• Reporting Home. (1990) [Journalism]
• Collected Stories of Olga Masters. (1996)

Novels

• Loving Daughters. (1984)
• Amy’s Children. (1987)

Drama

• The Working Man's Castle. (1988)

Secondary sources

• Lewis, Julie. Olga Masters: A lot of living. (UQP, 1991)

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[edit] External links

• On the Train Short story

Persondata
NAME	Masters, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Australian journalist, short story writer and novelist
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	28 May 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pambula, New South Wales, Australia
DATE OF DEATH	27 September 1986
PLACE OF DEATH	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia