Les Carlyon

Les Carlyon is an Australian writer, who was born in northern Victoria in 1942. He has been editor of Melbourne's journal of record, The Age, as well as editor-in-chief of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, and has twice won the Walkley Award for journalism. In 1993 he won the Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award.^[1][2]

His book Gallipoli, a popular history of the Allied Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles during the First World War (which remains a key event in the Australian and New Zealand national consciousnesses), was published in 2001, and met with critical and commercial success in Australia, New Zealand and England.

His The Great War, published in 2006, is the story of Australian forces on the Western Front in France and Belgium also during World War I.^[3]

The name Carlyon is of Cornish origin.^[4]

Awards

• Walkley Award for magazine feature writing 1971
• Graham Perkin Journalist of the Year Award 1993
• Walkley Award for journalism leadership 2004
• Melbourne Press Club Quill Award for Lifetime Achievement 2004
• Prime Minister's Prize for History 2007 (for The Great War)

References

External links

• ‘Gallipoli in a Nation’s Remembrance’; Australian War Memorial Anniversary Oration by Les Carlyon; 11 November 2004(transcript and audio)
• Les Carlyon 'The Write Stuff' The Age 21 March 2005
• Transcript of interview 30 June 2006 by Andrew Denton on ABC television program ‘Enough Rope’
• Transcript of interview by Tony Jones 25 May 2007 on ABC television program ‘Lateline’
• Les Carlyon and Barrie Cassidy in Conversation: Writer Les Carlyon and sports journalist Barrie Cassidy talk about the interplay between sport and war. This discussion, held at the State Library of Victoria on 19 August 2008, was part of the program of events for the Sport and War exhibition