VANCE PALMER
HE latest issue of Overland, an Australian literary quarterly, brings news of the death of Vance Palmer. This Australian writer, always much respected in New Zealand, made a deep impression as guest speaker at the Writers’ Conference in Christchurch in 1951. "To us," says Overland in an edi- | toriel tribute. "he was something of a
symbol, embodying in his work and person the calm and rational optimism and faith in life which is the foundation of humanism and the link between its various traditions. As a biographer and essayict nast and nresent
to us the great novelists of Europe and as a novelist and short story writer he taught us how one could be objective and still have a warm heart beating in the right place. He was a good radical, a good Australian, q good writer and a good man." Vance Palmer’s better known novels include Cronulla (1924), The Man Hamilton (1928), The Passage (1930) and The Swayne Family (1934.) He died at the age of 74.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 14
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170VANCE PALMER New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1049, 2 October 1959, Page 14
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