Nan Hunt Nan Hunt i(A9876 works by) (a.k.a. Nancy Louise Hunt)
Also writes as: N. L. Ray ; Nan Ray
Born: Established: 16 Sep 1918 Bathurst, Bathurst area, Bathurst - Orange area, Central West NSW, New South Wales, ; Died: Ceased: 4 Oct 2015
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Nan Hunt was educated in Bathurst where she wrote for the children's pages of her school newspaper. She worked as a stenographer in the office of a Bathurst department store from 1935 to 1943. She was a clerk with the Air Force (WAAF) from 1943 to 1946 when was stationed in Melbourne. Hunt then worked as a secretary from 1946 to 1967 in Sydney. She married Walter Gibbs Hunt and returned to Bathurst in 1968. After her husband's death in 1975, she helped her step-son run their Bathurst property for a few years then took up writing full time.

Nan Hunt's writing appeared on the children's page of the Sydney Sun and the Melbourne Leader when she was 11 years old. She later wrote for the women's page of the Sydney Morning Herald, had short stories published in the Woman's Mirror, and verse, articles and paragraphs in the Sydney Bulletin. From 1963 Hunt wrote for the New South Wales Department of Education's School Magazine. At the urging of the then editor of the School Magazine, Patricia Wrightson, Hunt wrote her first children's novel The Everywhere Dog (1978) drawing upon her experiences with her nine grandchildren, her favourite dog and her penchant for driving assorted motor vehicles.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Show Sydney : Collins Anne Ingram Books , 1988 Z831295 1988 single work picture book children's
1988 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards
y separately published work icon A Rabbit Named Harris Sydney : Collins , 1987 Z831727 1987 single work picture book children's Julio wanted to save his Grandad from being put into a home, so he took him on an adventure. They took something they would need, and something to love.
1988 commended Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature
1987 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
y separately published work icon Whistle Up the Chimney Sydney : Collins , 1981 Z836305 1981 single work picture book children's

Mrs. Millie Mack liked to listen to her fire going crickle crackle but one winter, when she threw several pieces of wood from an old railway carriage on the fire, there were very surprising results.

1982 winner New South Wales State Literary Awards
1982 commended CBCA Book of the Year Awards Picture Book of the Year
1982 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature

Known archival holdings

Lu Rees Archives University of Canberra University of Canberra Library (ACT)
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