Geoffrey Piers Henry Dutton AO (2 August 1922 – 17 September 1998) was an Australia

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n author and historian.

Dutton was born in Kapunda, South Australia

South Australia

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 in 1922 and died in September 1998. He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia

Order of Australia

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 in 1976.

Dutton wrote or edited over 200 books, including poetry, fiction, biographies, art appreciation, art and literary history, travel books, novels for children and critical essays. Whilst at Adelaide University, he also wrote for the student newspaper On Dit

On Dit

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.

Awards and nominations

• Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
  Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
  The Grace Leven Prize for Poetry is an annual award given in the name of Grace Leven who died in 1922. It was established by William Baylebridge who "made a provision for an annual poetry prize in memory of 'my benefactress Grace Leven' and for the publication of his own work"...
  
  , 1958: winner for Antipodes in Shoes
• FAW Christopher Brennan Award, 1993: winner

Novels

• The Mortal and the Marble (1950)
• Andy (1968)
• Tamara (1970)
• Queen Emma of the South Seas (1976)
• The Eye Opener (1982)
• Flying Low: A Novel (1992)

Poetry

• Night Flight and Sunrise (1944)
• Antipodes in Shoes (1958)
• Flowers and Fury: Poems (1962)
• On My Island: Poems (1967)
• Poems Soft and Loud (1967)
• Findings and Keepings: Selected Poems, 1939-1969 (1970)
• North West: Fifteen Poems from the Pilbara and Kimberley (1971?)
• New Poems to 1972 (1972)
• A Body of Words (1977)
• Selective Affinities: New Poems (1985)
• New and Selected Poems (1993)

Children's

• Tisi and the Yabby (1965)
• Seal Bay (1966)
• Tisi and the Pageant (1968)
• The Prowler (1982)

Non-fiction

• A Long Way South (1953)
• Founder of a City: The Life of Colonel William Light, First Surveyor-General of the Colony of South Australia: Founder of Adelaide 1786-1839 (1960)
• Patrick White (1961)
• Australia and the Monarchy, Sun Books, Melbourne (1966)
• Snow on the Saltbush: The Australian Literary Experience (1984)
• The Innovators: The Sydney Alternatives in the Rise of Modern Art, Literature and Ideas (1986)
• Kenneth Slessor: A Biography (1991)
• Out in the Open: An Autobiography (1994)
• A Rare Bird: Penguin Books in Australia 1946-96 (1996)

Edited

• Republican Australia?, Sun Books, Melbourne (1977) ISBN 0725102616
• Seven Cities of Australia (1978)

External links

• Brief biography