Geoffrey Dutton

Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australian author and historian.

Biography

Dutton was born into a prominent pastoralist family of Anlaby Station near Kapunda, South Australia in 1922. He studied at the University of Adelaide, where he wrote for the student newspaper On Dit and avant-garde magazine Angry Penguins. He later studied at Magdalen College, Oxford.

During his career, Dutton wrote or edited over 200 books, including poetry, fiction, biographies, art appreciation, art and literary history, travel books, novels for children and critical essays.

He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 1976,^[1] and died in 1998.

Awards and nominations

• Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, 1958: winner for Antipodes in Shoes
• FAW Christopher Brennan Award, 1993: winner

Bibliography

Novels

• The Mortal and the Marble (1950)
• Andy (1968)
• Tamara (1970)
• Queen Emma of the South Seas (1976)
• The Eye Opener (1982)
• Flying Low: A Novel (1992)

Short stories

• The Wedge-Tailed Eagle: Stories (1980)
• Nikolai

Poetry

• Night Flight and Sunrise (1944)
• Antipodes in Shoes (1958)
• Flowers and Fury: Poems (1962)
• On My Island: Poems (1967)
• Poems Soft and Loud (1967)
• Findings and Keepings: Selected Poems, 1939-1969 (1970)
• North West: Fifteen Poems from the Pilbara and Kimberley (1971?)
• New Poems to 1972 (1972)
• A Body of Words (1977)
• Selective Affinities: New Poems (1985)
• New and Selected Poems (1993)

Children's

• Tisi and the Yabby (1965)
• Seal Bay (1966)
• Tisi and the Pageant (1968)
• The Prowler (1982)

Non-fiction

• A Long Way South (1953)
• Founder of a City: The Life of Colonel William Light, First Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: Founder of Adelaide 1786-1839 (1960)
• Patrick White (1961)
• Australia and the Monarchy, Sun Books, Melbourne (1966)
• Edward John Eyre: The Hero as Murderer, Collins, Sydney (1967); reprint, Penguin Books, Melbourne (1977)
• In Search of Edward John Eyre, MacMillan, Melbourne (1982)
• Snow on the Saltbush: The Australian Literary Experience (1984)
• The Innovators: The Sydney Alternatives in the Rise of Modern Art, Literature and Ideas (1986)
• Kenneth Slessor: A Biography (1991)
• Out in the Open: An Autobiography (1994)
• A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96 (1996)

Edited

• Australia's Censorship Crisis, Sun Books, Melbourne (1970) - with Max Harris
• Republican Australia?, Sun Books, Melbourne (1977) ISBN 0-7251-0261-6
• Seven Cities of Australia (1978)
• Sir Henry, Bjelke Don Baby and Friends, Sun Books, Melbourne, (1971) - with Max Harris
• The Vital Decade: Ten Years of Australian Art and Letters, Sun Books, Melbourne (1968) - with Max Harris
• "The Australian Bedside Book: A Selection of Writings from The Australian Literary Supplement", Macmillan, Melbourne (1987) -

  preface by Morris West; contributors include Elizabeth Jolley, Dianne Highbridge, Les A. Murray, Tim Winton, Kate Grenville.

References

• The Wakefield Companion to South Australian History
• The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature
• Who's Who in Australia 1999

External links

• Obituary: Geoffrey Dutton
• Brief biography