Peter Cowan

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Peter Walkinshaw Cowan AM (born November 4, 1914 in Perth , Western Australia , † June 6, 2002 ) was an Australian writer.

Life

Peter Cowan's grandmother was Edith Dircksey Cowan , the first female MP in an Australian Parliament; a university in Australia is named after her.

Cowan was the only son of Norman Walkinshaw Cowan and Marie Emily Johnston. He graduated from Perth Technical College in 1938 and graduated with a bachelor's degree from the University of Western Australia. Peter Cowan was married to Edie Howard and had a son, Julian, with her. He volunteered for military service in World War II , but was turned down for health reasons. He worked at times as a teacher.

Awards

In 1963, Peter Cowan was granted a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship to write his first novel, Summer . In 1987 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia and in 1992 received the Patrick White Award for an Australian Writer of Great Distinction . The Edith Cowan University appointed him an honorary doctorate of philosophy in the 1995th

Works (selection)

In his novels and short stories, Cowan describes the social and cultural isolation of the individual in society.

Short stories

  • Drift (1944)
  • The unplowed land (1958)
  • The empty street (1965)
  • The tins and other stories (1973)
  • Mobiles (1979)

Novels

  • Summer (1964)
  • Seed (1966)
  • The Color of Sky (1986)
  • The Hills of Apollo Bay (1989)

Biographies

  • A unique position, a biography of Edith Dircksey Cowan, 1861-1932 (1978)
  • Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia (1988)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edith Cowan's biography in the online edition of the Australian Dictionary of Biography
  2. ↑ a b c Biography ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the ECU Foundation @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecu.edu.au
  3. ↑ List of the award winners


personal data
SURNAME Cowan, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cowan, Peter Walkinshaw
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 4, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth , Western Australia
DATE OF DEATH June 6, 2002