| LC control no. | n 50034270 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PR9619.3.M83 |
| Personal name heading | Murray, Les A., 1938-2019 |
| Variant(s) | Murray, Leslie Allan, 1938-2019 Murray, Les, 1938-2019 |
| Other standard no. | http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q259841 4940524 http://viaf.org/viaf/4940524 0000000121185321 http://isni.org/isni/0000000121185321 http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an36116007 http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-615253 http://d-nb.info/gnd/119223147 http://www.idref.fr/028136357 http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb120030841 https://www.freebase.com/m/08ydm0 http://www.poetrylibrary.edu.au/poets/murray-les http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0615126 |
| Associated country | Australia |
| Located | Bunyah (N.S.W.) New South Wales Sydney (N.S.W.) |
| Birth date | 1938-10-17 |
| Death date | 2019-04-29 |
| Place of birth | Nabiac (N.S.W.) |
| Place of death | Taree (N.S.W.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry Criticism |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Critics |
| Found in | His The ilex tree, 1965. His Persistence in folly, 1984: t.p. (Les A. Murray) Aus CIP (Murray, Les A. (Leslie Allan), 1938- ) His The rabbiter's bounty, 1991: CIP t.p. (Les Murray) data sheet (Les A. Murray; b. 1938) Conscious and verbal, 1999: title page (Les Murray) The biplane houses, 2007: t.p. (Les Murray) New selected poems, 2014: title page (Les Murray) Les Murray website, January 13, 2016: home page (Les Murray; Australia's leading poet and one of the greatest contemporary poets writing in English) A brief biography (Leslie Allan Murray was born in 1938 in Nabiac, a village on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, and spent his childhood and youth on his father's dairy farm nearby; one of Australia's most influential literary critics; until 1988 he lived chiefly in Sydney; from that year on he has made his home on a small farm just a few miles from where he spent his boyhood) <http://www.lesmurray.org/> Wikipedia, January 13, 2016: Les Murray (poet) (Leslie Allan "Les" Murray AO (born 17 October 1938) is an Australian poet, anthologist and critic; born in Nabiac on the North Coast of New South Wales and grew up in the neighbouring district of Bunyah where he currently resides; occupation: Poet; known for: Poetry) New York times WWW site, viewed May 6, 2019 (in obituary published May 2: Les Murray; b. Leslie Allan Murray, Oct. 17, 1938, Nabiac, N.S.W.; grew up in the isolated nearby valley town of Bunyah; d. Monday [Apr. 29, 2019], Taree, N.S.W., aged 80; Australian poet with an international reputation and an extraordinary intellect whose verse ruminated on death, his native bushland, and his own turbulent life) |
| Associated language | eng |
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