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English: Ion Llewellyn Idriess

Ion Idriess was born in Waverley, Sydney in 1890 and was educated in several New South Wales towns before attending the Broken Hill School of Mines. At the age of sixteen he began a twenty-five year period of travel around most regions of Australia including the Torres Strait in Queensland. His novel The Drums of Mer, dealt with his experience in the Torres Strait. Idriess worked in a variety of jobs, including miner, rabbit-exterminator, boundary-rider, rouseabout, opal miner, crocodile hunter and drover. He served at Gallipoli and in the Sinai and Palestine in World War I. He was badly wounded in 1918.

After the war, he continued his nomadic lifestyle, but in 1928 he settled in Sydney to begin a career as a freelance writer.Idriess contributed to the Bulletin's 'Aboriginalities' column and other journals under such pseudonyms as 'Gouger', 'Up North' and 'Emucrest' and had some success with earlier books; in 1931 he wrote his first best-seller, Lasseter's Last Ride. From this time until his last book appeared in 1969, he regularly published at least one book a year, providing tales of Australian adventure.. He also wrote several books for children about historical events in Australia. Many of Idriess's books, such as The Cattle King (1936) and Flynn of the Inland (1932) went through multiple printings. Ion Idriess was awarded an OBE in 1968. He died in 1979.
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