Leonard Mann

Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.^[1]

Life

He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.^[2]

Awards

• 1957 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
• Australian Literature Society's gold medal (for his first novel, Flesh in Armour)

Works

Poetry

• Elegiac, and other poems. Cheshire. 1957. 
• The delectable mountains and other poems. Angus and Robertson. 1944. 
• Poems from the mask. Hawthorn Press. 1941. 
• The plumed voice: poems. Angus & Robertson. 1938. 

Novels

• Flesh in Armour: A Novel. University of South Carolina Press. 2008. ISBN 978-1-57003-770-2.  first edition self-published (Phaedrus Press) 1932
• Human Drift. Angus and Robertson. 1935. 
• A Murder in Sydney. Jonathan Cape. 1937. 
• Mountain Flat. Jonathan Cape. 1939. 
• The Go-Getter. Angus and Robertson. 1942. 
• Andrea Caslin. Jonathan Cape. 1959. 
• Venus Half-Caste. Hodder and Stoughton. 1963. 

Anthologies

• Jennifer Strauss, ed. (1993). The Oxford book of Australian love poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553297-5. 

References

External links

• ["Remembering the war: Australian novelists in the interwar years.", Australian Literary Studies]