What is Les Murray (poet)?
[[File:Lesmurray.jpg|thumb|Murray in 2004]] '''Leslie Allan Murray''' {{Small|[[Order of Australia|AO]]}} (17 October 1938 – 29 April 2019) was an [[Australia]]n poet, [[Anthology|anthologist]] and [[critic]]. His career lasted over 40 years, and he published nearly 30 collections of [[poetry]]. He served as the literary editor of [[Conservatism|conservative]] [[magazine]] ''[[Quadrant (magazine)|Quadrant]]'' for more than twenty years. He was called Australia's most likely chance of winning the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] during his career. He was born in [[Nabiac, New South Wales|Nabiac]], [[New South Wales]]. Murray died on 29 April 2019 in [[Taree, New South Wales]]. He was 80.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-29/les-murray-australian-poet-dies-aged-80/11055966|title=Australian poet Les Murray dies at 80|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|date=29 April 2019|access-date=29 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/australian-poet-les-murray-dies-aged-80-20190429-p51icd.html|title=Les Murray, Australian poet, dies aged 80|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|date=29 April 2019|access-date=29 April 2019}}</ref> == Related pages== *[[List of poets from Oceania]] ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons category}} * {{Official website|http://lesmurray.org/}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Murray, Les}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:Australian poets]] [[Category:Australian Roman Catholics]] [[Category:Australian critics]] [[Category:Editors]] [[Category:Order of Australia]] [[Category:Writers from New South Wales]] {{Bio-stub}}