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Peter Cowan
Peter Cowan (1914-2002) was an award-winning, highly acclaimed writer with five novels, eight collections of short fiction and two biographies. He also edited or coedited seven anthologies and was co-editor of the literary magazine Westerly.
Awards
Patrick White Award for Literature
Books available from Fremantle Press
From the Catalogue
Brush with Gondwana
by Janda Gooding with illustrations by Philippa Nikulinsky, Ellen Hickman, Katrina Syme, Pat Dundas, Penny Leech, Margaret Pieroni & Rica Erickson
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things