Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow was born in Geraldton, Western Australia, in 1935. He majored in French and English at the University of Western Australia and lectured in English Literature at the universities of Adelaide, Western Australia and Leeds. His novel To the Islands won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1958 and he was awarded the Patrick White Award in 1979. As well as producing fiction and poetry, he wrote libretti for music theatre works by Peter Maxwell Davies. Randolph Stow died in 2010.

Books available from Fremantle Press

• The Land's Meaning 2012