Dr David Ireland

David Ireland was born in Lakemba in New South Wales in 1927. Before taking up full-time writing in 1973 he undertook the classic writer's apprenticeship by working in a variety of jobs ranging from greenkeeper to an extended period in an oil refinery.

Ireland has won the Miles Franklin Award on three occasions, with The Unknown Industrial Prisoner in 1971, The Glass Canoe in 1976, and A Woman of the Future in 1979. Ireland's novel A Woman of the Future was also awarded The Age Book of the Year Award in 1980.

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