Elizabeth Kata
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Elizabeth Kata (1912 – 4 September 1998) was an Australian writer, best known for Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961), which was made into the award-winning film A Patch of Blue (1965).
Elizabeth Kata was born of Scottish parents in Sydney in 1912. After marrying a Japanese man in 1937, she lived for ten years in Tokyo.
As well as writing for television, Kata spent two years in Hollywood as a scriptwriter. Her first novel Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961) was produced as a film, A Patch of Blue, that won a Writers' Guild of America award in 1965. After the success of the film, the novel was re-released as A Patch of Blue.
Elizabeth Kata died in Sydney in 1998.
[edit] Works
- Be Ready with Bells and Drums (1961; re-released as A Patch of Blue)
- Someone will conquer them (1962)
- Tilda (1979)
- Child of the holocaust (1980)
- The death of Ruth (1981)
- With kisses on both cheeks (1981)
- Kagami (1989)
