Elizabeth Harrower (writer)

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Elizabeth Harrower (born 1928 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian novelist and short story writer.

She was born in Sydney but spent her childhood in industrial Newcastle, New South Wales. She lived in London from 1951 to 1959. On her return to Sydney she worked as a reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald, for the ABC, and in publishing.^[1]

Her novels show "a psychological fascination with deep-seated human motivations, fears and obsessions".^[1]

Awards and nominations

1968: Commonwealth Literary Fund fellowship^[2]
1974: Australian Council for the Arts fellowship^[2]
1996: Patrick White Award^[3]

Bibliography

Down in the City (1957)
The Long Prospect (1958)
The Catherine Wheel (1960)
The Watch Tower (1966)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora, p. 87
↑ 2.0 2.1 Elizabeth Harrower Biography
↑ National Library of Australia, Guide to the Papers of Elizabeth Harrower MS 8237

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Name	Harrower, Elizabeth
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Short description	Contemporary Australian novelist
Date of birth	1928
Place of birth	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Date of death
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