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Olga Masters


Born
in Pambula N.S.W, Australia
May 28, 1919

Died
September 27, 1986

Genre
Fiction


Olga Masters née Lawler (28 May 1919 – 27 September 1986) was an Australian journalist, novelist and short story writer.

Masters wrote as a journalist for most of her life, and supplemented the family income by writing for local newspapers in the towns she lived in with her husband. On their return to Sydney, she wrote for papers such as The Manly Daily and The Sydney Morning Herald.

While she wanted to write fiction from an early age, she was not published as a writer of fiction until the late 1970s. During this decade she wrote several radio plays, receiving many rejections, but on 29 April 1977, her radio play The Penny Ha-penny Stamp was broadcast. However with the publication of her short story, Call me Pinkie, in The Sydney Morning Hera ...more

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Average rating: 3.72 · 244 ratings · 29 reviews · 11 distinct works • Similar authors
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The home girls (Paperback p...
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Loving Daughters
3.64 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 1984 — 21 editions
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A long time dying
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Collected Stories
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The Rose Fancier
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“Don't say the name! I don't ever want to know!" But what Amy was really saying was, I want to blame you, and only you. I want to punish you all the rest of your life, and only you.”
― Olga Masters, A long time dying
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“Cobargo was a terribly dull place in 1935.”
― Olga Masters, A long time dying
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“That's all you've got to do," Sarah said, using her soft and whispery voice. "Put that money under the stone there before Minnie and the others get home from school. I don't want to shoot you with them looking on.”
― Olga Masters, A long time dying
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