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Harry Gordon Harry Gordon i(A87619 works by)
Born: Established: 9 Nov 1925 ; Died: Ceased: 21 Jan 2015 Gold Coast, Queensland,
Gender: Male
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Harry Gordon is a former editor of the Melbourne Sun newspaper and was editor-in-chief of the Herald and Weekly Times (Melbourne). He has written a number of non-fiction books including five on the Olympic Games and he has won several awards for sports writing. In 2006 Gordon, the official historian of the Australian Olympic Committe, was awarded the International Society of Olympic Historians Lifetime Award.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon An Eyewitness History of Australia Adelaide : Rigby , 1976 Z1181066 1976 single work non-fiction
1977 winner National Book Council Award for Australian Literature For the 1976 edition.
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