Hugh Lunn

Hugh Lunn

Hugh Duncan Lunn is an Australian journalist and author, born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1941. Lunn served his journalism cadetship with The Courier-Mail. Upon completing his cadetship, he worked overseas for seven years. During 1967 and 1968 he covered the Vietnam War for Reuters, before returning to Australia to become Queensland editor for The Australian. Over the course of the next two decades Lunn was in turn sacked and re-employed by Rupert Murdoch's newspapers a number of times. Finding himself without employment at the age of 37, he began to pen a memoir about his childhood.

Lunn is now famous in Queensland for a number of autobiographical books. The best known of these is "Over The Top With Jim". Published in 1990 "Over The Top..." tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egoroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egoroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins".

Lunn is also famous for coining the phrase "there is no such thing as an ex-Queenslander", which he first used in an attempt to convince rugby league authorities of the viability of a Rugby League State of Origin series.

Awards

* Walkley Award (1974)(for six feature articles dealing with the Brisbane floods)
* Walkley Award (1975)(for feature on Why Queensland is Different.
* Walkley Award (1979) (for a series of articles from Australia, Hong Kong, Cambodian border and Malaysia on Vietnamese boat refugees)
* National Press Club Best Sports Feature Award (1979)(for "The Maroon Avengers")
* The Age Book of the Year Award 1985 for VIETNAM A Reporter's War

Publishing Record

* "Joh: The Life and Political Adventures of Johannes Bjeke-Petersen" 1978
* "Behind the Banana Curtain" 1980
* "Queenslanders" [(1984)]
* "VIETNAM A Reporter's War" 1985
* "Over The Top With Jim" 1989
* "More Over The Top With Jim Stories"
* "The Over The Top With Jim Album"
* "Head Over Heels", University of Queensland Press 1992 ISBN 0-7022-2418-9
* "Fred and Olive's Blessed Lino", University of Queensland Press 1993 ISBN 0-7022-2575-4
* "Spies Like Us", University of Queensland Press 1995 ISBN 0-7022-2757-9
* "Working for Rupert" 2001
* "On the Road to Anywhere" 2003
* "Lost for Words", ABC Books 2006 ISBN 0-7333-1759-6


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