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Vivian Hopkirk Vivian Hopkirk i(A14841 works by) (a.k.a. Vivian [Whiteley] Hopkirk)
Born: Established: 1957 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Born in Sydney and educated at Christ's College, Canterbury, and Victoria University, New Zealand, Vivian Hopkirk lived and studied a decade abroad, sponsored by Cinzano in Tuscany and living as writer-in-residence at the Shakespeare and Company bookshop in Paris. In 1992 he returned to Australia and wrote the prison novel Meditations of a Flawed Groom, for which he induced a brief stay in a Sydney jail. He has also written and published poetry. Vivian Hopkirk is the nephew of artist Brett Whiteley (q.v.).

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