biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (c.1923– )
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Auckland, New Zealand. She went to Australia in 1942 and married the author D'Arcy Niland. Her first success was with the novel The Harp in the South (1947), a story of slum life in Sydney which has been translated into 10 languages, and forms a trilogy with Poor Man's Orange (1949) and Missus (1986). Her work includes several other novels, as well as short stories, and scripts for film, television, and radio. She created the popular Muddle-Headed Wombat series of children's books, and has written fiction for adolescent readers. Her best-selling autobiography A Fence Around the Cuckoo was published in 1992. |
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