biography
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Wright, Judith (Arundell)
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| female
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| lived:
| (1915–2000)
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| biography:
| Poet, born near Armidale, New South Wales, SE Australia. She studied at Sydney, and worked in educational administration in Queensland. She was a militant environmentalist and a strong advocate of Aboriginal land rights. Her work is valued for the broad sympathies of The Moving Image (1946), in which she was one of the first white writers to recognize Aboriginal claims, and the personal lyrics of Woman to Man (1950). Her collections include Collected Poems (1971), Four Quarters and Other Poems (1976), The Human Pattern (1990), and Collected Poems: 1942–1985 (1994). The first volume of her autobiography, Half a Lifetime, was published in 1999. In 1992 she became the first Australian to be awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry. |
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