Les Carlyon was born in northern Victoria in 1942. He had been
editor of the Age, Melbourne, and editor-in-chief of the Herald &
Weekly Times. He twice won the Walkley Award. His Gallipoli was
published in 2001 to enormous critical and commercial success in
Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain, and is now widely
regarded as the definitive history of that campaign. Gallipoli won
the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best History Book and
the Australian Publishers' Association Readers' Choice Award.In
2006 The Great War was published to universal acclaim and became an
instant bestseller. It won the inaugural Prime Minister's Prize for
History in 2007, and was also honoured by the Australian Book
Industry Awards, winning the Australian Book of the Year, as well
as the Best General Non-fiction Book.
Les passed in 2019.
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