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Sylvia Lawson Sylvia Lawson i(A25711 works by)
Born: Established: 12 Nov 1932 Sydney, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 6 Nov 2017 Carlton, Parkville - Carlton area, Melbourne - North, Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Female
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'Sylvia Lawson wrote essays, critical journalism and fiction. She published widely on film, media and cultural politics, and worked in print and broadcast journalism, the film industry, in universities and adult education programmes.' (Griffith Review 59)

Lawson is the great-granddaughter of Louisa Lawson. 

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y separately published work icon How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia Sydney : University of New South Wales Press , 2002 Z926778 2002 selected work short story essay criticism With a keen critical eye and sharp insight Sylvia Lawson moves the essays and stories in this collection through settings in and out of Australia - across Paris, West Papua, Britain, Indonesia - listening to the distinctive local voices from our cultural margins and reclaiming concerns the metropolitan centres ignore. (Source: Publisher's Website)
2003 winner ASAL Awards — Walter McRae Russell Award
2003 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Gleebooks Prize for Literary or Cultural Criticism
y separately published work icon The Archibald Paradox : A Strange Case of Authorship Melbourne : Allen Lane , 1983 Z282137 1983 single work criticism
1984 shortlisted National Book Council Award for Australian Literature
1984 winner ASAL Awards — Walter McRae Russell Award
1984 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
1983 winner FAW Wilke Award
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