Judith Wright
Australian poet, environmentalist and Indigenous rights campaigner (1915-2000) · Australia · On the map · Writers · Died at 85
Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights. She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, 1965 and 1967.
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Lived 1915 to 2000 · aged 85
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R. S. ThomasBoth received King’s / Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry
Dorothy Coade HewettBoth received Christopher Brennan Award