Les Carlyon

Les Carlyon

Les Carlyon is an Australian writer, who was born in northern Victoria in 1942. He has been editor of Melbourne's journal of record, "The Age", as well as editor-in-chief of The Herald and Weekly Times Ltd, and has twice won the Walkley Award for journalism. In 1993 he won the Graham Perkin Australian journalist of the year award.

His book "Gallipoli", a popular history of the Allied Gallipoli campaign in the Dardanelles during the First World War (which remains a key event in the Australian and New Zealand national consciousnesses), was published in 2001, and met with critical and commercial success in Australia, New Zealand and England.

His "The Great War", published in 2006, is the story of Australian forces on the Western Front in France and Belgium also during World War I.

References

*Gallipoli, Les Carlyon, 2001, ISBN 0385 604750, Random House (cover biography notes)
* [http://www.awm.gov.au/events/talks/oration2004.asp Gallipoli in a Nations Remembrance] talk by Carlyon about Gallipoli (text and audio)

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NAME = Carlyon, Les
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DATE OF BIRTH = 1942
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