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Sumner Locke Elliott 1938

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Sumner Locke Elliott 1938

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[The Wireless Weekly, 12 August 1938. p3 via Trove]

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Sumner Locke Elliott

Sumner Locke Elliott, actor, playwright and novelist, lived in Sydney until 1948 and thereafter in the United States. In the 1960s after a successful career as a playwright he decided to reinvent himself as a novelist and of his ten novels five are based on his life in Sydney between the 1920s and 1940s. He won the Miles Franklin Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Award in 1977.

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Novelist, playwright and actor who won the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 1963 and the Patrick White Literary Award in 1977.

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Radio magazine founded by enthusiasts which later became a magazine for listeners to commercial broadcasts.

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