John Manifold

John Streeter Manifold AM (21 Afrilu 1915 - 19 Afrilu 1985) mawaki ne kuma mai suka a Ostiraliya. An haife shi a Melbourne, cikin wani sanannen iyali na Camperdown . Ya yi karatu a Makarantar Grammar Geelong ta Geelong, kuma ya karanta harsunan zamani a Kwalejin Jesus, Cambridge . Yayin da yake Cambridge ya shiga Jam'iyyar Kwaminis ta Burtaniya. Ya shiga cikin yunƙurin ƙirƙirar magaji ( Poetry and the People ) zuwa Left Review, lokacin da na biyu ya ƙare a 1938.

Daga nan ya yi aiki a Jamus, wajen buga littattafai. A lokacin Yaƙin Duniya na Biyu, ya yi aiki a fannin leƙen asiri a Rundunar Sojan Burtaniya, a Gabas ta Tsakiya, Afirka da Faransa. Mawakin yaƙi ne da aka buga; Trident, tare da Hubert Nicholson da David Martin, an buga shi ta hanyar mujallar Fore Publications ta Randall Swingler a shekarar 1944.

A shekarar 1949, ya koma Ostiraliya, ya zauna a Brisbane . Ya kafa ƙungiyar marubuta ta Realist a shekarar 1950.[1] Daga nan ya yi aiki kuma ya buga galibi a kan waƙoƙi da kiɗa na Ostiraliya, yana rera waƙoƙin ballads a bukukuwan fasaha. A cikin bikin girmama ranar Ostiraliya ta 1984, an naɗa shi memba na Order of Australia (AM) saboda "yin hidima ga adabi a matsayin mawaƙi da mawaƙi".[2] Ya mutu a Brisbane.[1]

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Rukuni:Mutuwan 1985
Rukuni:Haihuwan 1915