Blanche d'Alpuget

Josephine Blanche d'Alpuget (born 3 January 1944 in or near Sydney, the New South Wales district of Australia) is an Australian author and writer. She was named for her great-aunt, also named Blanche d'Alpuget. She is also a novelist. D'Alpuget made and wrote multiple novels, most of which were in the genres of love, biographies and drama.

D'Alpuget won a number of awards for fiction and nonfiction. Those included the Australasian Prize for Commonwealth Literature in 1987. 

Achievements and awards
These are the won awards as follows:
 1980 – The Sydney PEN Golden Jubilee award for Fiction
 1981 – NSW Premier's Award for Non-Fiction
 1982 and 1983 – Braille Book of the Year Award
 1982 – The Age Novel of the Year Award for Turtle Beach
 1982 – The South Australian Government's Award for Fiction
 1987 – Inaugural Commonwealth Award for Literature – Australasian Division
 1989 - The Guest of the Soviet Writers' Union travelling in the USSR
 2013 - The Young Lion among Best Books of 2013

References

Category:Australian novelists
Category:Writers from Sydney
Category:Award winners
Category:Living people
Category:1944 births