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Les Murray, vero nome Leslie Allan Murray ( Nabiac, 17 ottobre 1938 – Taree, 29 aprile 2019 ), è stato un poeta e scrittore australiano . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Opere tradotte in italiano. 2.1 Poesia. 2.2 Romanzi in versi. 2.3 Saggi. 3 Onorificenze. 4 Note. 5 Altri progetti. 6 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia.
Leslie Allan Murray AO (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an Australian poet, anthologist and critic. His career spanned over 40 years and he published nearly 30 volumes of poetry as well as two verse novels and collections of his prose writings.
Les (Leslie Allan) Murray was considered to be the leading Australian poet of his generation. He grew up in poverty on his grandparents’ farm in Bunyah, New South Wales, a district he moved back to with his own family in 1985. The recipient of numerous honors for his poetry, and often referred to…
3 giorni fa · Les Murray (born October 17, 1938, Nabiac, New South Wales, Australia—died April 29, 2019, Taree, New South Wales) was an Australian poet and essayist who in such meditative, lyrical poems as “Noonday Axeman” and “Sydney and the Bush” captured Australia’s psychic and rural landscape as well as its mythic elements.
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30 apr 2019 · Guardian books. Mon 29 Apr 2019 03.09 EDT. Les Murray, a distinguished figure of Australian letters, has died at the age of 80 on Monday after a long illness. One of Australia’s most successful...
1 mag 2019 · Michael Schmidt. Wed 1 May 2019 12.29 EDT. Years ago I took the Australian poet Les Murray to the launch of an anthology of new poets in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. “Why,” he asked edgily as we...
Home. Explore. Poets. Biography. Les Murray (1938 – 2019) grew up the only son of poor farmers in a remote valley in New South Wales. It was a hard background but one that instilled in him a love of the landscape and people of rural Australia which informed his poetry ever since.
