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T A G Hungerford
Thomas Arthur Guy Hungerford was born in 1915 and grew up in South Perth. He was a soldier who served in World War II before travelling to Japan with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force after the war. In 1948 he moved to Canberra where he worked for the Australian War Memorial and began to write. He is the author of four major novels and numerous poems but is perhaps best known for his short stories. He received an Order of Australia for services to Australian Literature in 1987 and the Patrick White Award in 2002.
Awards
Winner, The West Australian Short Story Competition, 1952
AIDA Science Educational Medal, 1963
Inaugural Honorary Fellow, National Museum of Australia,1994
Inaugural Honorary Fellow, National Museum of Australia, 1994
Special Recognition Medallion, National Museum of Australia, 2003
Winner, Fremantle and East Fremantle Local History Award, 2004, 2007
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Straight Shooter 2003
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
