Lee Harding

Lee Harding, one of Australia's best-known science fiction writers and anthologists, was born in Colac, Victoria, in 1937. Since 1960 his stories have appeared regularly in British, American and Australian publications. In 1978, Harding won the Alan Marshall Short Story Award for an unpublished manuscript Displaced Person. In 1980 Displaced Person won the prestigious Australian Children's Book of the Year Award. In 2006, Harding was honoured with the Australian Science Fiction Foundation Chandler Award in gratitude for his life’s work. Harding also received three Australia Council Fellowships from the Australian Council for the Arts Literature Board. Lee Harding was a full-time writer based in Melbourne. He passed away in Perth, Western Australia, two months after his 86th birthday, on the 19th April 2023. Lee Harding had four children, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren, with a fourth on the way.

He is missed.