Anne Fairbairn (Body, née Reid) AM, born 1948[1] is a widely published Australian poet,[2] journalist[3] and expert in Arabian culture.[4] She is the only granddaughter of Australia's fourth Prime Minister, Sir George Reid[5]
In 1965 she married Geoffrey Forrester Fairbairn,[6] a Professor in the Department of History at the Australian National University.[2] Geoffrey died in London of lung cancer on 11 September 1980.[7] Fairbairn has been known for her work in bringing together Australian and Arab cultures for over 30 years through poetry[8]
In 1995 she was awarded the Banjo Paterson Writing Award for Open Poetry.[1] This was followed by the Order of Australia in 1998 for services to literature and international relations between Australia and the Middle East.[1]