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(a.k.a.
Cowan, Peter Walkinshaw; Cowan, P.
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Born: 4 Nov 1914 Perth, Western Australia
Died: 6 Jun 2002 Guildford, Western Australia
Gender: Male
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Full biographical information is only available to AustLit Subscribers. A truncated and unformatted biographical extract follows: Peter Cowan spent much of the 1930s working in rural Western Australia as a labourer, and in 1938 attended the University of WA. In the Second World War, he served with the RAAF, and his interest in modernist literature led to an involvement with the Angry Penguins movement in Melbourne during the war years. Teaching English and Geography at Scotch College after the war, he became a senior tutor in English at the University of Western Australia in 1964, and later an Honorary Research Fellow. He ....To gain full access to the AustLit database become a subscriber. |
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23 Sep 2008