Peter Cowan (writer)

Peter Walkinshaw Cowan AM ( * November 4, 1914 in Perth, Western Australia, † 6 June 2002) was an Australian writer.

Life

The grandmother of Peter Cowan was Edith Cowan Dircksey, the first female members of parliament in an Australian Parliament; after her university in Australia is named.

Cowan was the only son of Norman Walkinshaw Cowan and Marie Emily Johnston. He studied at the Perth Technical College in 1938 and graduated with a bachelor's degree at the University of Western Australia from. Peter Cowan was married to Edie Howard and had with her ​​a son, Julian. He volunteered for military service in World War II, but was rejected for health reasons. He worked occasionally as a teacher.

Awards

1963 Peter Cowan was a Commonwealth Literary Fund Fellowship granted to write his first novel, Summer. In 1987 he was appointed Member of the Order of Australia and in 1992 he received the Patrick White Award for an Australian writer of Great Distinction. The Edith Cowan University made ​​him an honorary Doctor of Philosophy in 1995.

Works (selection)

In his novels and short stories Cowan describes the social and cultural isolation of the individual in society.

Short stories

  • Drift ( 1944)
  • The unploughed country (1958 )
  • The empty street (1965 )
  • The tins and other stories (1973 )
  • Mobile (1979 )

Novels

  • Summer ( 1964)
  • Seed ( 1966)
  • The Colour of Sky ( 1986)
  • The Hills of Apollo Bay ( 1989)

Biographies

  • A unique position, a biography of Edith Cowan Dircksey, 1861-1932 (1978 )
  • Maitland Brown: A View of Nineteenth Century Western Australia ( 1988)
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