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Jan 01, 1904 Sandgate, Queensland, Australia Died on 06 Jun 1977 (aged 73)
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About George Landen Dann
- George Landen Dann (1 January 1904 – 6 June 1977) was an Australian playwright, writer, and draftsman.
- He is best known for a number of award-winning and critically acclaimed plays such as In Beauty It Is Finished, Fountains Beyond, Caroline Chisholm and The Orange Grove.
- Dann wrote dozens of published and unpublished plays over the course of his lifetime.
- Originally writing plays for the amateur dramatic society at Sandgate, Queensland, Dann was a particularly shy and reclusive person, and even though he wrote part-time, his more popular plays were widely performed by amateur theatre companies around Australia.
- George Landen Dann's writing has been appreciated for its social realism, with a number of his plays delving into issues involving Indigenous Australians and their central characters reflecting individuals that Dann had met during his time in outback Australia. The George Landen Dann Award was established in 1992.
- It was awarded to promising young Australian playwrights until 2007.
