Percy Reginald Stephensen
Percy Reginald (Inky) Stephensen (born November 20, 1901 in Maryborough , Queensland , † May 28, 1965 in Sydney , New South Wales ) was an Australian writer, journalist, communist and co-initiator of the Australia First Movement .
Percy Stephensen was the eldest son of the wheelwright Christian Julius Stephensen and the Russian-born Swiss Marie Louise Aimée. Percy Stephensen went to Big Legend State School and Maryborough Grammar School . In Queensland he met Fred Paterson , a communist, and Eric Partidge, the author of an encyclopedia. He came into contact with intellectuals and radicals in Brisbane and joined the Communist Party of Australia in 1921 . Percy Stephensen studied at the University of Queensland and from 1924 with a Rhodes scholarship at the University of Oxford . In Great Britain he took part in the general strike that was taking place in 1926 and edited various written works, including a. The Bushwackers: Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback . In 1932 he returned to Sydney and founded the Endeavor Press in Sydney , where he also published Banjo Paterson and Miles Franklin . In 1933 he separated from this company and started his own company, which brought out literature by Franklin, Henry Handel Richardson , Eleanor Dark and other authors. This venture failed because of the delayed publication of Capricornia by Xavier Herbert . After his failure as a publisher, he became a journalist and political organizer. He opposed Egon Erwin Kisch's entry ban to Australia from 1934 to 1935. He published more than 70 books for Frank Clune as 'Inky' over the next 30 years. Stephensen's most important work was The Foundations of Culture in Australia , which led to an Australian poet movement Jindyworobak Movement .
He turned away from the Communist Party of Australia and became involved in the Australia First Movement , where William Miles financed him. This movement was fascist , anti-Semitic , anti-British and anti-democratic; the group's monthly magazine, The Publicist , he edited in 1941/42.
Because of his membership in the Australia First Movement , he was arrested in 1942 and imprisoned until 1945 because he was suspected of collaborating with the war opponents Japan and the Axis powers and of sabotage.
Works (selection)
- The Bushwackers: Sketches of Life in the Australian Outback
- The Foundations of Culture in Australia
- The Foundations of Culture in Australia: An Essay Towards National Self Respect (1936)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b adb.online.anu.edu.au : Stephensen, Percy Reginald ( 1901-1965 ) (English), accessed on March 20, 2011
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Stephensen, Percy Reginald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stephensen, Percy Reginald (full name); Stephensen, Inky |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer, author, communist, and later National Socialist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maryborough , Queensland |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 28, 1965 |
| Place of death | Sydney , New South Wales |