- Peter Mathers
Peter Mathers (1931 in
England cite web|url=http://www.sup.usyd.edu.au/projects_cal_authors.html|title=Classic Australian Works|publisher=Sydney University Press|accessdate=2008-08-19] -8 November 2004 inMelbourne ) was anAustralian author and playwright.He came to Australia with his family as a child. He attended state school in
Sydney andSydney Technical College , where he studiedagriculture . He "farmed, clerked, woolled, gardened, landscaped, chemicalled", and did other things before settling into his writing career.In 1961 he married and went to Europe to live in a cork forest in
France . His two daughters were born inLondon . From 1964 he worked in Britain and Europe as a researcher. His first writing appeared in the early 1960s, and in 1967 he took up a writing fellowship in theUnited States and returned to Australia in the following year.His first novel "Trap" (1966), won the
Miles Franklin Literary Award , [cite news|url=http://www.theage.com.au/news/Books/Missing-the-point-by-Miles/2005/01/12/1105423548691.html|title=Missing the point by Miles|last=Williams|first=Michael|date=2005-01-15|publisher=The Age |accessdate=2008-08-19] an inventive and often comic novel concerning the escapades and family history of Jack Trap, an urban mixed-blood Aborigine in what was then a society racially divided by theWhite Australia Policy . His second novel, "The Wort Papers" (1972), ranged across the country in rural settings from the Kimberley to dairy country in northernNew South Wales , and further established his reputation as a stylistic innovator and satirist.Mathers wrote
radio play s, articles and published many stories in magazines, journals and newspapers before beginning a substantial playwriting career. He lived inMelbourne for many years prior to his death in 2004.References
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DATE OF BIRTH=1931
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DATE OF DEATH=2004
PLACE OF DEATH=Melbourne ,Victoria, Australia
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