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Name: (Alfred) (Francis) Xavier Herbert
Variant Name: Xavier Herbert, Alfred Francis Xavier Herbert
Birth Date: May 15, 1901
Death Date: November 10, 1984
Nationality: Australian
Gender: Male

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Biography of (Alfred) (Francis) Xavier Herbert
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Aptly nicknamed "Australia Prolix" by a rival in 1938, Xavier Herbert was a controversial visionary novelist and short-story writer whose long career from 1926 to 1984 registered the major social and cultural developments of his generation. Nurtured by...


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Xavier Herbert (15 May 1901 – 10 November 1984) was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning book Poor Fellow My Country (1975), and could be considered one of the elder statesmen of Australian literature. He is also known...


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Xavier Herbert: A Quintessential Australian.(Review)
12/22/1999: 1,686 words, approx. 6 pages
Frances de Groen, Xavier Herbert (University of Queensland Press, 1998), $39.95 Xavier Herbert was the quintessential Australian man of the twentieth century: outback traveller and larrikin, soldier of the nation, seducer of women. He laboured as a railway fettler in the Northern Territory....
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Xavier Herbert: A Biography.(Review)
05/01/1999: 1,746 words, approx. 6 pages
Xavier Herbert: A Biography, by Frances de Groen; University of Queensland Press, 1998, $29.95. Xavier Herbert appeared to be the quintessential mid-twentieth-century Australian writer, based on publication in 1938 and 1975 of his major works. He died fewer than fifteen years ago, still...
 


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