Judah Waten

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Judah Waten (29 July 1911—29 July 1985) was an Australian novelist.

Born in Odessa to a Russian-Jewish family, Judah Waten arrived in Western Australia in 1914.^[1] He attended Christian Brothers' College, Perth and, moving to Melbourne in 1926, University of Melbourne. He wrote novels, short stories and a history of the Great Depression in Australia. He was a member of the Communist Party of Australia in the 1950s, travelling to the Soviet Union several times, and remained left-leaning throughout his life. He was an involved in the Realist Writers Group, International PEN, the Fellowship of Australian Writers and served on the Literature Board of the Australia Council. He died in 1985 in Melbourne.

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Novels

• Alien Son (1952)
• The Unbending (1954)
• Shares in Murder (1957)
• Distant Land (1964)
• Season of Youth (1966)
• So Far No Further (1971)

Non-fiction

• The Depression Years, 1929-1939 (1971)

Memoir

• From Odessa to Odessa: The journey of an Australian writer (1969)

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NAME	Waten, Judah
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION
DATE OF BIRTH	29 July 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH	Odessa, Ukraine
DATE OF DEATH	29 July 1985
PLACE OF DEATH	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia