Elizabeth Jolley (1923)
Monica Elizabeth Jolley 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…
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Kenney Jones (1948)
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Ros Kelly (1948)
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Patrick Sercu (1944)
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