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Malley, Ernest Lalor (Ern)

Fictitious poet created by James McAuley and Harold Stewart. The poetry was to become one of Australia's greatest literary hoaxes humiliating Max Harris, the founder of the magazine 'Angry Penguins' who published them in his role as a champion of modernist poetry.

Milestone
Born
Liverpool, England
14 Mar 1918
Arrived Sydney
1920
Died
Sydney
23 Jul 1943
Occupation
Position
1944
1944
1944
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