Blanche d'Alpuget

Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget (born 3 January 1944 in or near Sydney, the New South Wales district of Australia) is an Australian author and writer. She was named for her great-aunt, also named Blanche d'Alpuget.[1] She is also a novelist. D'Alpuget made and wrote multiple novels, most of which were in the genres of love, biographies and drama.

D'Alpuget won a number of awards for fiction and nonfiction. Those included the Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature in 1987.

Achievements and awards

These are the won awards as follows:[2]

  • 1980 – The Sydney PEN Golden Jubilee award for Fiction
  • 1981 – NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction
  • 1982 and 1983 – Braille Book of the Year Award
  • 1982 – The Age Novel of the Year Award for Turtle Beach
  • 1982 – The South Australian Government's Award for Fiction
  • 1987 – Inaugural Commonwealth Award for Literature – Australasian Division
  • 1989 - The Guest of the Soviet Writers' Union travelling in the USSR
  • 2013 - The Young Lion among Best Books of 2013

References

  1. ↑ "In the Winter Garden". A Freeman's Journal. Retrieved January 3, 2026.
  2. ↑ "On Lust and Longing". Melbourne University Press. 26 February 2018. Archived from the original on 12 July 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.


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