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Dorothy Hewett
Dorothy Hewett was born in 1923 in Perth, Western Australia, and grew up on an isolated wheat farm at Wickepin. Dorothy Hewett began writing poetry as a child and was first published in a literary journal at the age of seventeen. At twenty-two she won a national poetry prize. Dorothy Hewett was awarded the Order of Australia Medal for Services to Literature. She died in Sydney in 2002.
Awards
Winner, Turnbull Fox Poetry Prize National Book Council, 1994
Short listed, Kenneth Slessor Poetry Award, 1994
Winner, New South Wales Premier’s Award, 1993
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 1994
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book of the Year Award, 1994
Order of Australia Medal for Services to Literature
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Wheatlands 2000
From the Catalogue
Outdoor Reading in Freo
The National Year of Reading is about turning Australia into a nation of readers. Fremantle City Library invites you the launch of the National Year of Reading 2012 at their Outdoor Reading Room.
Indulge your love of reading this Valentine’s Day with a morning tea and talks by Susanna Juliano author of Fremantle Italians and Andrew Relph, author of Not Drowning, Reading
When: 10am, 14 February 2012
Where: Outdoor Reading Room, Kings Square, Fremantle
RSVP by 7 Feb: 08 9432 9766 or frelib@fremantle.wa.gov.au
