Elizabeth O'Conner under the name Barbara Lowe is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n novelist. Elizabeth O'Conner was born in Dunedoo in New South Wales. After a childhood spent in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains region of New South Wales, she studied art in Adelaide and Sydney.

She married in 1942 and moved to the Gulf country of Queensland, where she had four children. She died in Atherton, Queensland

Atherton, Queensland

Atherton is a town on the Atherton Tablelands of Far North Queensland, Australia. At the 2006 census, Atherton had a population of 7,068.-Roads:...

 in 2000.

Awards

Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ...	The Irishman, 1960

Novels

• The Irishman
  The Irishman
  The Irishman is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Elizabeth O'Conner.The novel deals with the experiences of Paddy Doolan, an Irish teamster, and his sons in the Gulf Country in the north of Australia.-Film Adaptation:...
  
  (1960)
• Find a Woman (1963)
• The Chinee Bird (1966)
• The Winds of Fate (1977)
• Spirit Man (1980)
• Darling Caroline (1980)

Autobiography

• Steak for Breakfast (1958)
• A Second Helping (1969)