Katharine Susannah Prichard

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Katharine Susannah Prichard

Katharine Susannah Prichard (born December 4, 1883 in Levuka , Ovalau , Fiji , † October 2, 1969 in Greenmount near Perth ) was an Australian writer and founding member of the Communist Party of Australia .

Life

Prichard began her career as a journalist and lived in London from 1908 to 1916 . In 1920 she was a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia, of which she belonged until her death. In 1919 she married Hugo Throssell and they both had a son, Ric Throssell. Hugo Throssell committed suicide during Katharine's trip to Europe in 1933.

In her novels Black Opal and Working bullocks she depicts social conflicts in the Australian outback . The novel Coonardoo , published in 1929, is considered the first realistic novel to describe the fate of a native woman in white society.

Her home in Greenmount is now the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Center .

Works

Novels

  • The Pioneers (1915)
  • Black Opal (1921, German: Black Opal )
  • Working bullocks (1926)
  • Coonardoo (1929)
  • The roaring nineties (1946, German: gold rush )
  • Golden miles (1948, German: the golden mile )
  • Winged seeds (1950)

Autobiography

  • Child of hurricane, an autobiography (1963)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Homepage of the center
personal data
SURNAME Prichard, Katharine Susannah
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Levuka , Ovalau , Fiji
DATE OF DEATH 2nd October 1969
Place of death Greenmount near Perth