Anne Fairbairn
{{Short description|Australian poet and journalist (1928–2018)}}
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Anne Mary Ross Fairbairn {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (also Body, {{nee|Reid}}; 1928 – 22 October 2018){{Cite web|url=http://blackpepperpublishing.com/fairbairn.html|title=Anne Fairbairn Black Pepper Publishing blackpepperpublishing.com|website=blackpepperpublishing.com}} was a widely published Australian poet,{{cite web|url=http://www.manningclark.org.au/html/Paper-Fairbairn_Anne-Australian_poet_and%20bridge-builder_glimpses_behind_the_anger.html |title=Australian poet and bridge-builder: glimpses behind the anger |publisher=Manning Clark House |accessdate=16 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120722042108/http://manningclark.org.au/html/Paper-Fairbairn_Anne-Australian_poet_and%20bridge-builder_glimpses_behind_the_anger.html |archive-date=22 July 2012 }} journalist{{cite web|url=http://www.arabworldbooks.com/Literature/PoetryEvening/ann.html|title=Poetry by Anne Fairbairn |publisher=Arab World Books|accessdate=16 October 2012}} and expert in Arab culture.{{cite web|author=John Huxley |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/unreid-it-and-weep-taking-a-pms-name-20090821-etsp.html |title=George Houston Reid|work=Brisbane Times|date=22 August 2009|accessdate=16 October 2012}} Fairbairn has been known for her work in bringing together Australian and Arab cultures for over 30 years through poetry.{{cite web|url=http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A)%2BD|title=AustLit Agent: Fairbairn, Anne |publisher=Austlit|date=3 September 2007|accessdate=16 October 2012}}
Personal life
She is the only granddaughter of Australia's fourth Prime Minister, George Reid.{{cite web|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/nigerian-scam-shock/2008/08/20/1218911772460.html?page=2|title=Scammers defraud Aussies|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=20 August 2008|accessdate=16 October 2012}}
In 1965, she married Geoffrey Forrester Fairbairn,{{cite book|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn1867829|title=Biographical cuttings on Anne Fairbairn|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 October 2012}} a Professor in the Department of History at the Australian National University. Geoffrey died in London of lung cancer on 11 September 1980.{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms9326|title=Papers of Geoffrey Fairbairn (1924–1980)|publisher=National Library of Australia|accessdate=16 October 2012}}
She died at the age of 90 on 22 October 2018.{{Cite web|url=https://www.amust.com.au/2018/10/anne-fairbairn-passed-away/|title=Anne Fairbairn passed away|date=25 October 2018}}
Awards and honours
In 1995, she was awarded the Banjo Paterson Writing Award for Open Poetry. This was followed by the Order of Australia in 1998 for services to literature and international relations between Australia and the Middle East.
In September 2005, Fairbairn received the award, "Living for Others – Promoting Peace through Media, Arts and Culture" from the International and Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace presented in Sydney by Professor Marie Bashir AO, Governor of New South Wales.[https://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/lc/papers/Documents/2018/14-november-2018-minutes/M181114P.181.pdf Legislative council] 14 November 2018. Retrieved 14 November 2022
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Category:Australian women poets
Category:Australian women journalists
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