Les Murray

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Murray had a long career in poetry and literary journalism in Australia. When he was 38 years old, his Selected Poems was published by Angus & Robertson, signifying his emergence as a leading poet. The Murray biographer Peter Alexander has written that "all Murray’s volumes are uneven, though as Bruce Clunies Ross would remark, 'There's "less good" and "good", but it's very hard to find really inferior Murray'."

When Murray was a student at the University of Sydney he was the editor of Hermes, with Geoffrey Lehmann (1962). Murray edited the magazine Poetry Australia (1973–79). During his tenure as poetry editor for Angus & Robertson (1976–90) he was responsible for publishing the first book of poetry by Philip Hodgins. In 1991 Murray became literary editor of Quadrant. He edited several anthologies, including the Anthology of Australian Religious Poetry. First published in 1986, a second edition was published in 1991. It interprets religion loosely and includes the work of many of poets, such A. D. Hope, Judith Wright, Rosemary Dobson, Kevin Hart, Bruce Dawe, and himself. The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse was most recently re-issued in 1996.

Murray described himself, perhaps half-jokingly, as the last of the "Jindyworobaks", an Australian literary movement whose white members sought to promote indigenous Australian ideas and customs, particularly in poetry. Though not a member, he was influenced by their work, something that is frequently discussed by Murray critics and scholars in relation to his themes and sensibilities.

In 2007, Dan Chiasson wrote in The New Yorker that Murray was "now routinely mentioned among the three or four leading English-language poets". Murray was talked of as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Murray retired as literary editor of Quadrant in late 2018 for health reasons.

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• 1984 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for The People's Other World
• 1989 – Creative Arts Fellowship
• 1989 – Officer of the Order of Australia for services to Australian literature
• 1990 – Grace Leven Prize for Poetry for Dog Fox Field
• 1993 – Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for Translations from the Natural World
• 1995 – Petrarca-Preis (Petrarch Prize)
• 1996 – T. S. Eliot Prize for Subhuman Redneck Poems
• 1997 – Rated by the National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures.
• 1998 – Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry
• 2001 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Learning Human
• 2002 – shortlisted for the International Griffin Poetry Prize for Conscious & Verbal
• 2005 – Premio Mondello, Italy for Fredy Neptune