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Ion Idriess

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Australian novelist (1889-1979)

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Ion Llewellyn Idriess was a prolific and influential Australian author. He wrote more than 50 books over 43 years between 1927 and 1969 - an average of one book every 10 months, and twice published three books in one year.

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Officer of the Order of the British Empire

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Ion Llewellyn Idriess was a prolific and influential Australian author. He wrote more than 50 books over 43 years between 1927 and 1969 - an average of one book every 10 months, and twice published three books in one year. His first book was Madman's Island, published in 1927 at the age of 38, and his last was written at the age of 79. Called Challenge of the North, it told of Idriess's ideas for developing the north of Australia.

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Australia
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Writer / Author
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deceased
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Lived 1889 to 1979 · aged 90
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