Elizabeth Jolley
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Monica Elizabeth Jolley AO (4 June 1923 – 13 February 2007) was an English-born Australian writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s and forged an illustrious literary career there. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels (including an autobiographical trilogy), four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving significant critical acclaim. She was also a pioneer of creative writing teaching in Australia, counting many well-known writers such as Tim Winton among her students at Curtin University.[1]
Elizabeth Jolley | |
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Born | Monica Elizabeth Knight (1923-06-04)4 June 1923 Birmingham, England |
Died | 13 February 2007(2007-02-13) (aged 83) Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
Occupation(s) | Novelist, professor of creative writing |
Spouse | Leonard Jolley |
Children | 3 |
Her novels explore "alienated characters and the nature of loneliness and entrapment."[2]