Leonard Mann

This article is about the writer. For the actor, see Leonard Mann (actor).

Leonard Mann (15 November 1895 – 29 April 1981) was an Australian poet, and novelist.

Life

He served in the Australian Imperial Force during World War I, and with the Department of Aircraft Production in World War II.

Awards

• 1957 Grace Leven Prize for Poetry
• Australian Literature Society's gold medal (for his first novel, Flesh in Armour)

Works

Poetry

• Elegiac, and other poems. Cheshire. 1957.
• The delectable mountains and other poems. Angus and Robertson. 1944.
• Poems from the mask. Hawthorn Press. 1941.
• The plumed voice: poems. Angus & Robertson. 1938.

Novels

• Flesh in Armour (1932)
• Human Drift. Angus and Robertson. 1935.
• A Murder in Sydney. Jonathan Cape. 1937.
• Mountain Flat. Jonathan Cape. 1939.
• The Go-Getter. Angus and Robertson. 1942.
• Andrea Caslin. Jonathan Cape. 1959.
• Venus Half-Caste. Hodder and Stoughton. 1963.

Anthologies

• Jennifer Strauss, ed. (1993). The Oxford book of Australian love poems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-553297-5.

External links

• ["Remembering the war: Australian novelists in the interwar years.", Australian Literary Studies]