Geoffrey Dyer (1947 – 7 October 2020) was an Australian

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. He was born and died in

Hobart Hobart ( ; Nuennonne/ Palawa kani: ''nipaluna'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian island state of Tasmania. Home to almost half of all Tasmanians, it is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-small ...

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Career

He won the

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in 2003 with a portrait of

Richard Flanagan Richard Miller Flanagan (born 1961) is an Australian writer, who has also worked as a film director and screenwriter. He won the 2014 Man Booker Prize for his novel ''The Narrow Road to the Deep North''. Flanagan was described by the ''Washingt ...

. He was a

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of the 2011

. Steven Joyce of Hobart's Despard Gallery announced Dyer's death via social media on Thursday 8 October 2020 at age 73.

References

Artists from Tasmania Australian painters Archibald Prize winners 2020 deaths 1947 births People from Hobart Australian portrait painters Australian contemporary artists {{Australia-painter-stub