Peter Mathers [SEP] date of death
Peter Mathers
Peter Mathers (1931 in England – 8 November 2004 in Melbourne) was an English-born Australian author and playwright.
Mathers' family emigrated to Australia while he was a child. He attended state school in Sydney, and later Sydney Technical College, where he studied agriculture. He "farmed, clerked, woolled, gardened, landscaped, chemicalled", and did other things before settling into his writing career.
In 1961 he married and went to France to live in a cork oak forest.
- 10 November – Evan Jones, poet
Unknown date
- Laurie Hergenhan, literary scholar
- Peter Mathers, novelist (died 2004)
- Barry Oakley, novelist and playwright
Deaths.
A list, ordered by date of death (and, if the date is either unspecified or repeated, ordered alphabetically by surname) of deaths in 1931 of Australian literary figures, authors of written works or literature-related individuals follows, including year of birth.
- 22 August – Edward Dyson, editor,