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Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 1883 – 2 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia . Early life. Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents.
Katharine Susannah Prichard (born December 4, 1883, Levuka, Fiji—died October 2, 1969, Greenmount, near Perth, Western Australia, Australia) was an Australian novelist and writer of short stories, plays, and verse, best known for Coonardoo (1929).
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Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969), writer and political activist, was born on 4 December 1883 at Levuka, Fiji, eldest child of Tom Henry Prichard, newspaper editor, and his wife Edith Isabel, née Fraser.
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Jun 8, 2022 · Learn about the life and work of the Australian writer, intellectual and activist Katharine Susannah Prichard, who was a communist, a feminist, a traveller and a mother. The Conversation reviews The Red Witch, a full-scale independent biography by Nathan Hobby.
Katharine Susannah Prichard was an author and historically significant person who lived most of her life in the Perth hills region of Western Australia. She was notably the first Australian novelist to gain international recognition for her 1915 novel, The Pioneers, which won the prestigious Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for ...
The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre offers writing development activities and services, competitions, residencies, retreats and social events for young and adult writers. KSP 2021. Visit the KSP website for more information.
Katharine Susannah Prichard, author, pacifist, Communist, and political activist, chose to live on the outskirts of Perth for 50 years, from 1919 until her death in 1969. Her life was one of courage, determination, hard work, joy and tragedy.
