Eve Pownall
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(1901–1982) was an Australian writer for children and historian who was born in
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Pownall was the eldest of three children and lived in Kiama, Windsor, Muswellbrook and Sydney before attending North Sydney Girls' High School. She undertook a secretarial course before finding work at Fox Films and then at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Ltd until her marriage to Leslie Pownall in December 1929. The couple were to have two children.[Australian Dictionary of Biography – Pownall, Marjorie Evelyn by Jan Roberts]
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She began to review children's literature for ''Australasian Book News and Literary Journal'', and later began writing children's fiction and non-fiction of her own. She was appointed an MBE in 1978 and was the first recipient of the Lady Cutler award for distinguished service to children's literature in New South Wales.
Bibliography
Children's fiction
* ''Nursery Rhymes Told Anew'' (1945)
* ''Squik the Squirrel Possum'' (1949)
* ''Cousins-Come-Lately : Adventures in Old Sydney Town'' (1952)
* ''Five Busy Merry-Makers'' (1953)
* ''Binty the Bandicoot'' (1957)
* ''A Drover'' (1970)
Children's non-fiction
* '' The Australia Book'' (1952) illustrated by Margaret Senior
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* ''Exploring Australia'' (1958)
* ''A Pioneer Daughter'' (1968)
* ''The Great South Land'' (1969) illustrated by Christine Shaw
Non-fiction
* ''Mary of Maranoa : Tales of Australian Pioneer Women'' (1959)
* ''The Thirsty Land : Harnessing Australia's Water Resources'' (1967)
* ''The Children's Book Council of Australia : 1945–1980'' (1980)
* ''Australia From The Beginning'' (1980) illustrated by Walter Cunningham
Awards and nominations
Personal
* 1978 – Member of the Order of the British Empire — for Service to Literature
* 1981 – winner Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children's Literature in New South Wales
For specific works
* 1952 – winner Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers for ''The Australia Book''"Children's Book of the Year: An Australian Classic?", ''The Sunday Herald'', 10 August 1952, p11
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References
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1901 births
1982 deaths
20th-century Australian women writers
20th-century Australian writers
Australian children's writers
Writers from Sydney
Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire