Judith Wright 
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Judith Wright 
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* 31.05.1915, Armidale, NSW, Avstralija
25.06.2000, Canberra, Avstralija

Judith Wright was born in 1915 at Thalgaroch Station, near Armidale in the New England district of NSW. Her forebears had been among the first settlers of the area in the early decades of the nineteenth century. She was educated at the University of Sydney, and taught at the University of Queensland from 1943-1947. Her first volume of poems, The Moving Image , was published in 1946. Her subsequent collections include Woman to Man (1949), The Gateway (1953), The Two Fires (1955), Birds (1962), Five Senses (1963), The Other Half (1966), Alive: Poems 1971-1972 (1973), Fourth Quarter and Other Poems (1976) and Phantom Dwelling (1985). Her Collected Poems 1942-1970 was published in 1971. Her poetry is now available in the volume A Human Pattern: Selected Poems (ETT Imprint, 1996).

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Wright was an astute critic of Australian poetry, and her essays on Australian poets in Preoccupations in Australian Poetry (1965) are a major contribution to Australian literary history. A further collection of literary essays and reviews, Because I Was Invited, was published in 1975. She gave an account of her family's history in Generations of Men (1959) and The Cry for the Dead (1981). Wright was a campaigner for Aboriginal land rights and an active conservationist, and her writing in these areas appear in We Call for a Treaty (1985), Born of the Conquerors (1991) and Going on Talking (1992).

A winner of many literary awards, Judith Wright received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. A biography, South of My Days, by Veronica Brady, was published by HarperCollins in 1998. She died in 2000.

Objave
  • Australian Bird Poems

    1940

  • The Moving Image

    1946

  • Woman to Man

    1949; repr. 1967

  • The Gateway

    1953

  • The Two Fires

    1955

  • Kings of the Dingoes

    for children

    1958

  • Generations of Men

    (historical)

    1959

  • The Day the Mountains Played

    for children

    1960

  • Birds

    Poems

    1962

  • Range the Mountains High

    1962

  • Country Towns

    1963

  • Five Senses

    1963

  • Preoccupations in Australian Poetry

    Essays on Australian poets

    1965

  • The Other Half

    Poems

    1966

  • Collected Poems 1942-1970

    1971

  • Alive

    Poems 1971-1972

    1973

  • Because I Was Invited

    Essays and reviews

    1975

  • Fourth Quarter and Other Poems

    1976

  • The Double Tree

    Selected Poems, 1942-1976

    1978

  • The Cry for the Dead

    (historical)

    1981

  • Phantom Dwelling

    Poems

    1985

  • We Call for a Treaty

    1985

  • Born of the Conquerors

    1991

  • Going on Talking

    Essays

    1992

  • Collected Poems 1942-1985

    1994

  • A Human Pattern

    Selected Poems

    Bondi Junction: ETT Imprint, 1996

Nagrade
  • 1950 Grace Leven Prize

  • 1964 Aurtralia-Britannica Award

  • 1972 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry

  • 1976 FAW Christopher Brennan Award

  • 1977 Robert Frost Memorial Award

  • 1984 Australian World Prize

  • 1992 Queen's Medal for Poetry