JUDITH WRIGHT

She was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.

She was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award.

Judith Wright was born in New South Wales. Her mother died early and she became an orphan, which influenced her whole life. She married a writer and had two children.

At the age of 20 she began to lose her hearing and after some years she became deaf.

She studied English and Philosophy at the University of Sidney.

Her first book of poetry, The Moving Image, was published in 1946 while she was working at the University of Queensland. In 1966, she published The Nature of Love, her first collection of short stories. She was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.

She was an ecology and social activist and supported the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and Fraser Island. She also fought for aboriginal land rights.

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