Peter Rose (born 1955) is an Australian poet, critic, novelist and editor.[1]
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Peter Rose belongs to a notable Collingwood Football Club family. His father, Bob Rose, was a famous player and coach. His brother, Robert Rose (1952-1999), played for Collingwood and opened the batting for Victoria before an accident left him a quadriplegic in 1974. He was educated at Haileybury, Melbourne and Monash University.
In 2001 Peter Rose published Rose Boys, a family memoir which won the National Biography Award in 2003. During the 1990s, Rose was a publisher at Oxford University Press, Australia, where he published a range of Oxford reference books and dictionaries. Since 2001 he has been the editor of the Australian Book Review. He has also edited two poetry anthologies. In 2009 he appeared on the judging panel for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards, and in 2011 he judged the National Biography Award. He has for more than a decade been chairperson of the Robert Rose Foundation, which assists people with spinal cord injuries. An extensive election of his poetry appears in the Australian Poetry Library.
Peter Rose acknowledged his homosexuality in Rose Boys.[2]