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Les Murray

Died in 2019

Les Murray was born on 17 October 1938 in Nabiac, in New South Wales (in Bunyah according to Poets.org), and grew up in Bunyah. He studied modern languages at the University of Sydney, then worked as a translator at the Australian National University. He ran the literary section of the journal Quadrant from 1990. The author of two verse novels and some thirty collections, he received the T. S. Eliot Prize in 1996 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. He returned to live in Bunyah in 1985 and died in Taree on 29 April 2019.

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