Papers of Selwyn Pritchard
MSS 347
Collection Title
Papers of Selwyn PritchardCollection Identifier
MSS 347Inclusive date(s)
1960 to 2000Extent and Medium
Creator(s)
Category
Subject: Person(s)
Collection Description
Drafts, notebooks, correspondence
Administrative / Biographical history
Selwyn Pritchard was born in 1933, the third son of a Welsh carpenter. He left school at 16, was conscripted and served five years as a subaltern in The Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Jamaica, Guyana, Dortmund and Berlin. He subsequently became a teacher before entering Oxford to read Philosophy, Politics and Economics and graduating at the age of 35. He then taught philosophy for some years before moving to the Orkney Islands with his wife and three children.
In 1980 they emigrated to New Zealand, then Australia, to the Mornington Peninsula south of Melbourne. His last post was as professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Jinan University in Guanghou, People's Republic of China.
He began to write poetry on leaving the United Kingdom. He was awarded the Rome residency by the Literature Board of the Australia Council in 1999.
Selwyn Pritchard died in Victoria in 2005.
Source: Austlit
Acquisition Details
Scope and Content
This collection relates to Selwyn Pritchard and includes drafts of poetry and prose; notebooks; correspondence
Access Restrictions
Other
Access: Open Access
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed below. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.
Copying: Copying of material authored by Selwyn Pritchard for private study and research is approved.
Existence and Location of Orginals
Disclaimer
This collection contains a variety of copyright material. Copyright is held by the creator of each item. Specific conditions for this collection are listed above. If no conditions are stipulated then the standard terms of the Copyright Act apply for published and unpublished items. Digitised material from manuscript collections is provided to clients by UNSW Canberra in good faith for private study and research only, and may not be published or re-purposed without the express and written permission of the individual legal holder of that copyright. Refer also to the UNSW copyright, disclaimer and takedown policy.