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Place of Birth: South Australia, Australia
About J. S. Harry
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- Harry (or Jan Harry; 4 January 1939 – 20 May 2015) was an Australian poet described as "one of Australian poetry’s keenest satirists, political and social commentators, and perhaps its most ethical agent and antagonist."J.
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- Harry was born in South Australia, but soon moved to Sydney, where she remained.
- She worked as an editor for Radio National and held a residency at Australian National University.
- A recurrent character in her work was Peter Henry Lepus, a rabbit who name-drops philosophers such as Bertrand Russel, Ludwig Wittgenstein and A.
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- His satirical "clear-eyed vision of the world, and the humans that inhabit it, is that of an Everyrabbit, with its endless simplicity, trepidation and curiosity." Among other accolades J.
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- Harry won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize for Poetry, the Poetry Society’s Book of the Year, the PEN International Lyne Phillips Poetry Prize and the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry.
- Her recent works include Not Finding Wittgenstein (2007) a ‘collected works’ of Peter Henry Lepus and "Public Private" (2014).
- Posthumous publication of the last adventure of Peter Henry is anticipated (Giramondo Publishing).
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