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Jean Wohlers. . ( m. 1942) . Maxwell Edgar Fatchen, AM (3 August 1920 – 14 October 2012) was an Australian children's writer and journalist . Colin Thiele and Rhonnie Thiele with Max Fatchen standing behind at the State Library's 'Colin Thiele Day' in the Mortlock Library on 14 September 2000.
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Apr 29, 2014 · The first time I saw Max Fatchen and heard him speak was at a children’s book shop at Kent Town, in Adelaide, over 30 years ago, where he was launching a book called Southern Rainbow, by Phyllis Piddington, who had been one of my speech and drama lecturers at Wattle Park Teachers’ College in the 60’s.
Oct 14, 2012 · South Australian author and journalist Max Fatchen has died, aged 92. He started his career as a copy boy at The News in Adelaide and became a well-known feature writer, columnist, author and poet.
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Oct 15, 2012 · Celebrated South Australian journalist, poet and children's author Max Fatchen has died aged 92. Fatchen began his writing career in Adelaide in the 1930s and is probably best remembered for the ...
Nov 20, 2012 · Max Fatchen (1920-2012) was to become the state's most beloved wordsmith - columnist, journalist, novelist and poet. He also was the columnist with the longest output - producing columns in The News from 1948 and The Advertiser from 1955, right up until, aged 92, he retired. Fatchen won many awards - in 1980 an Order of Australia for literature ...
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Oct 21, 2012 · HUNDREDS of journalists mentored by veteran Adelaide journalist, author and poet Max Fatchen are mourning the death of one of the legendary figures of the newspaper industry. Fatchen died a week ...
Educated at Gawler High School, Max Fatchen started work as a copy boy on the Adelaide News in the late 1930s. During the Second World War, he served in the RAAF and while in New Guinea wrote short stories which were published in the Sydney Sun. From 1955 Fatchen wrote regular columns of verse and prose for the Adelaide Advertiser, and was ...
