Eleanor Dark
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Eleanor Dark AO was an Australian writer whose novels included Prelude to Christopher and Return to Coolami, both winners of the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for literature, and her best k
Dark, about 1945, photographed by Max Dupain
Eleanor Dark memorial plaque in Sydney Writers Walk at Circular Quay
Varuna, The Writers' House
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Varuna, The National Writers’ House is Australia's national residential writers' house located in Katoomba, in the Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. The former home of writers Eleanor and Er
Eleanor Dark
…She died in 1985, aged 84. Michael Dark inherited the family home 'Varuna' in Katoomba, which in 1988 was turned into a writers' centre known as Varuna, The Writers' House. It is managed by the Eleanor Dark Foundation, of which Michael Dark remained President until his death in July 2015. Slow Dawning (1932…
Varuna, The Writers' House. Image by Black Forest Cherry Photography