Ronald McKie

Ronald McKie
Born	Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (1909-12-11)11 December 1909 Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Died	2 May 1991(1991-05-02) (aged 81)
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	Australian
Period	1940–1988
Notable works	The Mango Tree
Notable awards	Miles Franklin Award, 1974

Ronald Cecil Hamlyn McKie (11 December 1909 – 2 May 1991) was an Australian novelist. He was born in 1909 in Toowoomba, Queensland. After receiving his education at the Brisbane Grammar School and the University of Queensland, he worked as a journalist on newspapers in Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore and China. He served in the AIF during World War II from 1942–1943, following which he served as war correspondent for several Australian and UK newspapers. After the war he worked for the "Sydney Daily Telegraph".

Awards

• Miles Franklin Award and FAW Barbara Ramsden Award for The Mango Tree, 1974, (joint winner)

Bibliography

Novels

• The Mango Tree (1974)
• The Crushing (1977)
• Bitter Bread (1978)

Autobiography

• Bali (1969)
• We Have No Dreaming (1988)

Non-fiction

• This Was Singapore (1947)
• Proud Echo (1953)
• The Survivors (1953)
• The Heroes (1960)
• The Emergence of Malaysia (1963)
• Malaysia in Focus (1964)
• The Company of Animals (1966)
• Singapore (1972)
• Echoes from Forgotten Wars (1980)