Blanche d'Alpuget
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Blanche d'Alpuget (born 1944) is an Australian novelist and biographer. She wrote a biography of then Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke and the two had an affair. After Hawke left office in 1991, his wife Hazel divorced him. Hawke and d'Alpuget were married in 1995.
A film adaption of her novel, Turtle Beach, was released in 1992 starring Greta Scacchi, Joan Chen and Jack Thompson.
[edit] Awards
- 1981 The Age Book of the Year award for Fiction for Turtle Beach
[edit] Published works
Novels
- 1967, Dangerous Visions: 33 Original Stories
- 1980, Monkeys in the Dark
- 1981, Turtle Beach
- 1986, Winter in Jerusalem
- 1993, White Eye
Biographies
- 1977, Mediator: A biography of Sir Richard Kirby
- 1982, Robert J. Hawke : a biography
[edit] Bibliography
- Blanche d'Alpuget (1982). Robert J Hawke. Schwartz. ISBN 0-86753-001-4.
