Stephen Murray-Smith

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Stephen Murray-Smith (born September 9, 1922 in Melbourne , † 1988 ) was an Australian editor and author.

Murray-Smith attended Geelong Grammar School until 1940 . He served in New Guinea during World War II and then studied history with Manning Clark at the University of Melbourne . From 1948 to 1951 he lived in London and Prague. He was a member of the Communist Party for thirteen years, from which he resigned after the Hungarian uprising was suppressed in 1956.

As a member of the Communist Party, he was secretary of the Australian Peace Council , a prominent member of the Melbourne Realist Writers Group and from 1952 to 1954 editor of Realist Writer magazine . In 1954 he founded the literary magazine Overland , which he edited until his death. He also gave lectures at the University of Melbourne and published Melbourne Studies in Education until 1982 , and from 1981 to 1983 he was President of the National Book Council .

Murray-Smith has published numerous books, including two collections of short stories: The Tracks We Travel (1953) and (with Judah Waten ) Classic Australian Short Stories (1974); the An Overland Muster collection (1965), Marcus Clarke's For the Term of His Natural Life (1970), a collection of Ian Turner's works: Room for Maneuver (1982, with Leonie Sandercock ) and the travel diaries of the missionary Marcus Brownrigg : Mission to the Islands (1979). With Edgar Waters he compiled the Rebel Songs (1947) and with John Thompson the Bass Strait Bibliography (1981).

His own works include his study of Henry Lawson (1962, 1975), an autobiography entitled Indirections (1981) and a report on a trip to Antarctica - Sitting on Penguins (1988). In the field of linguistics, he published a Dictionary of Australian Quotations (1984) and a phrasebook for Australian English: Right Words (1987). Under the pseudonym Simon Ffuckes , he and Ken Gott presented the song collection Snatches & Lays (1973) with poems a. a. composed by AD Hope , James McAuley and Robert Brissenden .

Murray-Smith's daughter is the writer Joanna Murray-Smith .

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SURNAME Murray-Smith, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian editor and author
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH 1988