| Birth Place: Elthan, NZ
Birth Date: 5/6/13 Discipline: Writer Accomplishment: Wrote - "Fire on Snow" |
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| Douglas Stewart is a poet, playwrite and critic.
Stewart wrote plays in which the recreation of a mythical past helped bring on to existance an Australian national tradition. Two of his most succeddful pieces of work were plays written for radio rather than stage. "Fire on Snow", broadcast in 1941. The play is based on British explorer Robert Scott's tragic expedition to the Antarctic. "The Golden Lover", broadcast in 1944 retells a Maori ledgend. Both plays were publishd together in 1944. Douglas Alexander Stewart was born on May 6, 1913, in Eltham, New Zealand. He went to high School on New Plymouth and then studied at Victoria College in Wellington. He left and became a journalist. His first bookk of poems, "Green Lions", appeared in 1937. |
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 Douglas Stewart |
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Miss Everett Mount Annan Christian College Australia |