David Ireland biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of David Ireland

Author Name:

David Ireland

Born As:

David Neil Ireland

Other Names:

Born:

24 Aug 1927

Died:





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Novelist                          
Selected Works:


Novels:

The Chantic Bird - 1968
The Unknown Industrial Prisoner - 1971
The Flesheaters - 1972
Burn - 1974
The Glass Canoe - 1976
A Woman of the Future - 1979
City of Women - 1981
Archimedes and the Seagle - 1984
Bloodfather - 1987
The Chosen - 1997

Drama:

Image in the Clay - 1964                          
                          
He is one of 4 Australian writers to win the Miles Franklin Award more than twice - the others being Thea Astley with 4, Peter Carey 3 and Tim Winton 3.

Order of Australia - AM - 1981.                          
In 1973 he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs ranging from greenkeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery.