Amy Witting [SEP] place of death
Amy Witting
Amy Witting (26 January 1918 – 18 September 2001) was the pen name of an Australian novelist and poet born Joan Austral Fraser. She was widely acknowledged as one of Australia's "finest fiction writers, whose work was full of the atmosphere and colour or times past".
Life.
Amy Witting was born in the Sydney suburb of Annandale, and was brought up as a Catholic. She has "melancholy memories of a repressive family life" and remembered the nuns at her school, St
- 2003 in Australian literature : Death of Joan Phipson; "Mangroves" – Laurie Duggan; "The Great Fire" – Shirley Hazzard wins the National Book Award (USA)
- 2002 in Australian literature : Death of Dorothy Hewett; "Moral Hazard" – Kate Jennings; "Journey to the Stone Country" – Alex Miller
- 2001 in Australian literature : Death of Amy Witting; Quarterly Essay publishes its first issue; "True History of the Kelly Gang" – Peter Carey wins the Man Booker Prize;