Name Anne Fairbairn | Role Poet | |
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Anne Fairbairn, (B'ody, née Reid, born 1928) Member of the Order of Australia is a widely published Australian poet, journalist and expert in Arab culture. She is the only granddaughter of Australia's fourth Prime Minister, George Reid.
In 1965, she married Geoffrey Forrester Fairbairn, a Professor in the Department of History at the Australian National University. Geoffrey died in London of lung cancer on 11 September 1980. Fairbairn has been known for her work in bringing together Australian and Arab cultures for over 30 years through poetry.
In 1995, she was awarded the Banjo Paterson Writing Award for Open Poetry. This was followed by the Order of Australia in 1998 for services to literature and international relations between Australia and the Middle East.