Prichard, Katharine Susannah
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▪ Australian author
born Dec. 4, 1883, Levuka, Fiji
died Oct. 2, 1969, Greenmount, near Perth, W.Aus., Australia
Australian novelist and writer of short stories, plays, and verse, best known for Coonardoo (1929).
Prichard's father was editor of the Fiji Times, and she grew up mostly in Australia. She first worked as a newspaper journalist in Melbourne and Sydney and then as a free-lance journalist in London before concentrating on her plays and fiction. She returned to Australia in 1916. While visiting London in 1909, Prichard was deeply affected by the plight of the workers. The suffering she witnessed on her second visit caused her to join the Communist Party of Australia in 1920.
The Marxist influence and her social consciousness were particularly evident in her early plays but remained constant throughout her career. Her skillful use of natural imagery and colloquial language is credited with altering prevailing attitudes toward the Aborigines.
Prichard's other novels include
Black Opal (1921),
Working Bullocks (1926),
Intimate Strangers (1937), and a trilogy set in the Western Australian goldfields:
The Roaring Nineties (1946),
Golden Miles (1948), and
Winged Seeds (1950).
Additional Reading
John Hay and Brenda Walker (eds.), Katharine Susannah Prichard Centenary Essays (1984); Richard Nile, The Making of a Really Modern Witch: Katharine Susannah Prichard 1919–1969 (1990).
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