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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

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