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Elizabeth Riddell

エリザベス・リデル

Erizabesu Rideru

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1910-03-21 (Napier, New Zealand)
Died
1998-07-03 (Sydney, New South Wales) age 88
Nationality
New Zealander
Languages
English
Residence History
Napier, New Zealand → Sydney, Australia → England → New York City

Career

Occupations
poet, journalist, art critic
Active Years
1928-1998
Affiliations
Smith's Weekly, The Daily Mirror, The Australian

Awards

Walkley Award
1968
Work: Best Newspaper Feature Story
Category: Best Newspaper Feature Story
Organization: Walkley Foundation
Result: Winner
Walkley Award
1969
Work: Best Newspaper Feature Story
Category: Best Newspaper Feature Story
Organization: Walkley Foundation
Result: Winner
Critic of the Year
1986
Organization: Australian Book Review
Result: Winner
Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
1992
Category: Poetry
Result: Winner
Patrick White Award
1995
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Untrammelled

1940 Poetry

Her first short book of poems

Selected Poems

1992 Poetry

Selected poems

Lifesaver

1931 Poem

Bibliography

  • The Untrammelled (1940)
  • Poems (1948)
  • Song for a Crowning (1953)
  • Forbears (1961)
  • Country Tune (1973)
  • From the midnight courtyard (1989)
  • Selected Poems (1992)
  • The Difficult Island (1994)

Legacy

New Zealand-born Australian poet and journalist renowned for her contributions to journalism, art criticism, and poetry, recipient of the Patrick White Award.

Trivia

  • Married Edward Neville 'Blue' Greatorex in 1935; the couple had no children. Widowed in 1964.