birth_date: 1919-04-01 00:00:00
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name: Marjorie Mcardell Davey
about: This Tasmanian writer of short stories has published her first novel at the age of 95.Most people who live into their 90s are probably happy to sit and look back on their lives; reflecting on the highs and lows, thoughts of what might have been, paths not ventured down and checking off that bucket list.Burnie writer Marjorie Davey has had a full life, mostly lived on the state's north-west coast but had another box to tick as she approached her mid-90s.The publication of her first full length novel is the culmination of a long literary life filled with magazine articles, short stories and poetry.Mrs Davey is a life member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and has held positions with the organisation's Tasmanian branch.She began writin This Tasmanian writer of short stories has published her first novel at the age of 95.Most people who live into their 90s are probably happy to sit and look back on their lives; reflecting on the highs and lows, thoughts of what might have been, paths not ventured down and checking off that bucket list.Burnie writer Marjorie Davey has had a full life, mostly lived on the state's north-west coast but had another box to tick as she approached her mid-90s.The publication of her first full length novel is the culmination of a long literary life filled with magazine articles, short stories and poetry.Mrs Davey is a life member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers and has held positions with the organisation's Tasmanian branch.She began writing in her teenage years, with one of her early pieces winning a competition in Darwin, beating 1,000 other contestants."As soon as I could write, I was writing stories," she said before her book launch in Hobart.But after putting writing ambitions on hold to raise seven children, Mrs Davey made up for lost time publishing many short stories and articles over the years, including some with Oxford University Press.Hardship and hope in tale of convict boysThe story she reserved for her first novel which has finally been published in her 90s is about young lives.The historical fiction Never to Return tells the stories of English boys sent across the world to a harsh, isolated prison in the penal colony of Van Diemen's Land. ...more
death_date: 2016-03-24 00:00:00