A.D. Hope

Alec Derwent Hope was born in Cooma, NSW on 21 July 1907 and spent most of his childhood in rural New South Wales. Hope was awarded the Robert Frost Award for Poetry and the Age Book Award in 1976, the Ingram Merrill Award for Literature (New York) in 1969, the Levinson Prize for Poetry (Chicago) in 1968, the Myer Award for Australian Literature in 1967 and the Britannica Award for Literature in 1965. He was awarded an OBE in 1972 and AC in 1981.

A.D. Hope died in 2000.