Lendlease puts 100-year-old WWII survivor through the retirement village wringer
Lendlease relied on a technicality to refuse to refund 100-year-old Egon Pedersen his $270,000 bond, making a mockery of its “pillars” of integrity, openness and trust. It quickly changed its tune when Michael West Media got involved. Dr Sarah Russell reports
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Words are, in the end, only words. But writers, and prize committees, must know more than anyone that words have power. Words have consequences, and we act accordingly. – Irish Times
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Elizabeth Harrower (1928-2020) | Margaret Sayers Peden (1927-2020)
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Elizabeth Harrower (1928-2020)
Australian author Elizabeth Harrower has passed away; only a very brief mention in the Sydney Morning Herald (and a paywalled obituaryat The Australian) so far, but there should be more coverage, at least in/from Australia, soon -- Harrower was a major writer, whose work was relatively recently revived when, after an almost fifty-year silence, In Certain Circles was published in 2014 (though she did write it much earlier); see also the Text author page.
Margaret Sayers Peden (1927-2020)
Translator Margaret Sayers Peden has passed away; see, for example, the family obituary in The Missourian.
Several of her translations are under review at the complete review, including Ernesto Sábato's The Tunnel, Fernando de Rojas' Celestina, and Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo. And see also her Q & A with James Hoggard at the Center for Translation Studies.