biography
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| (1885–1959)
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| biography:
| Writer and critic, born in Bundaberg, Queensland, NE Australia. He rejected the notion of a university education and chose to travel widely instead. A leading member of the Pioneer Players theatre group, he published poetry but was better known as a novelist, publishing a number of outback novels including The Passage (1930). By the 1940s he had a reputation as a pre-eminent cultural figure, and wrote a number of essays and literary and historical studies. Vance and Nettie Palmer were a remarkable literary partnership of great importance to Australia's cultural life. |
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