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Jean Williams Jean Williams i(A50555 works by) (a.k.a. Jean Rhonda Williams; Jean R. Williams)
Born: Established: 1925 Wallaroo, Northern Yorke Peninsula, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Jean Williams was born of German and Anglo-Australian parents and during World War II she served with the Red Cross Missing, Wounded and Prisoner of War (POW) Section before joining the Australian Women's Army Medical Service. She then studied Journalism with the South Australian Technical Correspondence School and Creative Writing with the New South Wales Society of Women Writers. She worked as a stenographer for state and federal parliaments.

Williams's work has been widely published in Australian journals and she has won awards and regional literary prizes for her writing notably from Radio BBC (London), the City of Mackay and Pine River Shire Council. Her work has been read on Radio ABC, on Channel 10 TV (Adelaide) and she has read her work at local schools.

In 1988, Williams was living with her husband on a farm at Nambour, Queensland.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Author writes in these languages:ENGLISH

Awards for Works

Tram to Enoggera i "Transfixed in Brisbane's alien heat", 1987 single work poetry
— Appears in: 1987 Anthology of Australian Poetry 1987; (p. 200) Homecoming : Images of Vietnam 1991; (p. 11)
1987 third FAW Malvern News Sheet Community Writers' Award Victorian Branch
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