Elizabeth Riddell | |
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| Born | (1910-03-21)21 March 1910 Napier, New Zealand |
| Died | 3 July 1998(1998-07-03) (aged 88) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | medical practitioner and poet |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | New Zelander |
| Years active | 1928-1998 |
| Notable awards | Walkley Award,Patrick White Award |
Elizabeth Riddell (21 March 1910 – 3 July 1998) was a New Zealand-born Australian poet and journalist.[1]
Born inNapier, New Zealand, Elizabeth Richmond Riddell came to Australia in 1928 where she worked atSmith's Weekly and won aWalkley Award.[2]
She marriedEdward Neville 'Blue' Greatorex (1901–1964) in Sydney in 1935. The couple did not have children. In 1935 she moved to England and duringWorld War II worked forEzra Norton atThe Daily Mirror, chiefly inNew York City. Her first short book of poems,The Untrammelled, was published in 1940. After the war she returned to Australia to continue working as a journalist, and in the 1960s becameart critic and feature writer forThe Australian. She was the first Walkley Award winner for The Australian, winning in 1968 and 1969 for 'Best Newspaper Feature Story'.[3] In 1986 she was awarded Critic of the Year by theAustralian Book Review.[4] Riddell's poetry won theKenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in 1992 and thePatrick White Award in 1995.
Widowed in 1964, Riddell died in 1998.[1]
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