Kate Llewellyn

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Kate Llewellyn AM (born 15 January 1936) [1] is an Australian poet, author, diarist and travel writer.

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Biography

Eldest of four children of Ron and Ivy Brinkworth (née Shemmald), Llewellyn was born Kathleen Jill Brinkworth in 1936 in Tumby Bay on Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Llewellyn trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, graduating as a registered nurse in 1958. [1] [2]

In 1960 she married Richard Llewellyn, with whom she had two children, including Caro Llewellyn. [3] The couple divorced in 1972. [2]

From 1965 to 1972 she owned and directed the Llewellyn Galleries, Dulwich, Adelaide and from 1971 to 1972 the Bonython Galleries, North Adelaide. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BA in history and classics in 1978. Llewellyn worked on the Unley Planning Study 1978 and in 1979 worked in the Women's Advisory Unit of the SA Premier's Department. [1] [2]

She was also involved in the Poets Union. [4]

Llewellyn began writing as an undergraduate. In addition to her poetry, she has written book reviews, criticisms and essays for Australian poetry and prose anthologies, magazines and newspapers and also on travel, gardening, food and people.[ citation needed ]

Llewellyn is a regular speaker at writers' festivals, including the 2015 Adelaide Writers' Week. She has also taught creative writing courses and been writer-in-residence at a number of colleges, universities and writers' centres across Australia.[ citation needed ]

Recognition

Australian Writers, 1975–2000 (one volume of the Dictionary of Literary Biography published by Thomson Gale, 2002-6) edited by Selina Samuels includes a biography of Llewellyn by Dorothy Jones. [5]

In 2005 Llewellyn received a Literature Board Fellowship (Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships) valued at $80,000 to write an autobiography and book of poems.

Llewellyn was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2024 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to literature as an author, historian and academic". [6]

Awards

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

Non-fiction

Critical studies and reviews of Llewellyn's work

Harbour : poems 2000–2019

Selected contributions

In 1982 three of Llewellyn’s short stories – "The Balts", "Gone" and "I Am My Own Companion" – were published in Frictions, an Anthology of Fiction by Women, edited by Anna Gibbs and Alison Tilson (Sybylla Cooperative Press & Publications, 1982). [9]

Her short story for Room to Move: The Redress Press Book of Australian Women's Short Stories edited by Suzanne Falkiner (Allen & Unwin, 1985) was one of 32 chosen from over 700 submissions. [10]

She is represented in The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Chosen by Les A Murray (Oxford University Press, 1986). [11]

One of her poems, "To a Married Man", appears in 60 Classic Australian Poems, with commentaries by Geoff Page (University of New South Wales Press, 2009). [12] It originally appeared in her award-winning book, Trader Kate and the Elephants.

Her poem, "Finished", from Selected Poems, was selected by John Leonard for inclusion in Australian Verse: An Oxford Anthology (Melbourne Oxford University Press, 1998). [13]

Places in the heart: thirty prominent Australians reveal their special corners of the world, edited and compiled by Susan Kurosawa (Sceptre, 1997) includes her "Endless Horizons". [14]

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References

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  8. First Things First: Selected letters of Kate Llewellyn 1977–2004. Wakefield Press. 2015. Archived from the original on 1 April 2019. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  9. Frictions : An Anthology of Fiction by Women. Sybylla Cooperative Press & Publications. 1982. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  10. Room to Move : The Redress Press Anthology of Australian Women's Short Stories. Allen & Unwin. 1985. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  11. The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Chosen by Les A Murray. Oxford University Press. 1986. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  12. 60 Classic Australian Poems, with commentaries by Geoff Page. University of New South Wales Press. 2009. Archived from the original on 7 February 2017. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  13. Australian Verse : An Australian Anthology. Melbourne Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
  14. Places in the Heart: Thirty Prominent Australians Reveal Their Special Corners of the World. Sceptre. 1997. Archived from the original on 27 October 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2017.