Judith Arundell Wright was an Australian poet, environmentalist and campaigner for Aboriginal land rights.
14 Facts About Judith Wright
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Judith Wright was a recipient of the Christopher Brennan Award and nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964,1965 and 1967.
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Judith Wright was nominated for the 1967 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Judith Wright moved to the Braidwood area to be closer to H C "Nugget" Coombs, her lover of 25 years, who was based in Canberra.
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Judith Wright started to lose her hearing in her mid-20s and became completely deaf by 1992.
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Judith Wright was the author of collections of poetry, including The Moving Image, Woman to Man, The Gateway, The Two Fires, Birds, The Other Half, Magpies, Shadow and Hunting Snake.
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Judith Wright's work is noted for a keen focus on the Australian environment, which began to gain prominence in Australian art in the years following World War II.
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Judith Wright's poems have been translated into a number of languages, including Italian, Japanese and Russian.
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In 2003, the National Library of Australia published an expanded edition of Judith Wright's collection titled Birds.
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Meredith McKinney, Judith Wright's daughter, writes that they were written at "a precious and dearly-won time of warmth and bounty to counterbalance at last what felt, in contrast, the chilly dearth and difficulty of her earlier years".
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Judith Wright campaigned in support of the conservation of the Great Barrier Reef and Fraser Island.
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In 2009 as part of the Q150 celebrations, Judith Wright was announced as one of the Q150 Icons of Queensland for her role as an "Influential Artists".
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However, in September 2006 the AEC announced it would name the seat after John Flynn, the founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service, due to numerous objections from people fearing the name Judith Wright may be linked to disgraced former Queensland ALP MP Keith Judith Wright.
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The Judith Wright Award was awarded as part of the ACT Poetry Award by the ACT Government between 2005 and 2011, for a published book of poems by an Australian poet.