Max Fatchen

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Max Fatchen (born 3 August 1920) is an Australian journalist and children's writer.

Max Fatchen spent his boyhood on an Adelaide Plains farm at Angle Vale. He learned to drive a team of Clydesdale horses and did part of his High School studies at home, driving his horse and buggy in once a week to Gawler High School to get his papers corrected. Later he entered journalism as a copy boy and after five years in the Services during World War II became a journalist with the Adelaide News and later The Advertiser. He covered many major stories in Australia and overseas. He began writing for children in 1966 and has been writing for them ever since. He has written 20 books, his novels appear in seven countries and his poetry throughout the English-speaking world. He writes for children in the primary school group. His favourite hobbies are fishing and talking to children and his favourite book when young was The Wind in the Willows.

Three of his books have received commendation in the Children's Book of the Year Award. He received the Order of Australia in 1980, the Advance Australia Award for literature in 1991, the Walkley Award for journalism in 1996, the Primary English Teaching Associations Award for children's poetry in 1996 and the SA Great Award for Literature in 1999 and the 2003 Centenary of Federation Medal for service to the community in journalism, poetry and writing for children. He was made Inaugural Life Member of SA Writers Centre in 2004 for long years of support, encouragement and ambassadorship for the Centre.

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Title : Tea for three Publisher : Moondrake 1994 Co-Author: Colin Thiele Type Of Book : Non fiction

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NAME	Fatchen, Max
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Australian children's writer
DATE OF BIRTH	3 August 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH	South Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
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