Leonard Mann
This article is about the writer. For the actor, see Leonard Mann (actor).
Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.[1]
Life
He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.[2]
Awards
- 1957 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
- Australian Literature Society's gold medal (for his first novel, Flesh in Armour)
Works
Poetry
- Elegiac, and other poems. Cheshire. 1957.
- The delectable mountains and other poems. Angus and Robertson. 1944.
- Poems from the mask. Hawthorn Press. 1941.
- The plumed voice: poems. Angus & Robertson. 1938.
Novels
- Flesh in Armour (1932)
- Human Drift. Angus and Robertson. 1935.
- A Murder in Sydney. Jonathan Cape. 1937.
- Mountain Flat. Jonathan Cape. 1939.
- The Go-Getter. Angus and Robertson. 1942.
- Andrea Caslin. Jonathan Cape. 1959.
- Venus Half-Caste. Hodder and Stoughton. 1963.
Anthologies
- Jennifer Strauss, ed. (1993). The Oxford book of Australian love poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553297-5.
References
External links
- ["Remembering the war: Australian novelists in the interwar years.", Australian Literary Studies]
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