Katharine Susannah Prichard (1883-1969) was one of Australia's most controversial novelists, best known for Coonardoo (1929) - probably the first realistic literary portrait of an Aboriginal woman. Prichard, who lived in Perth from 1919, was a founding member of the Communist Party of Australia and continued to promote the Communist cause for the rest of her life.
Most of her novels reflect her political views, particularly the trilogy set in the Western Australian goldfields: The Roaring Nineties (1946), Golden Miles (1948), and Winged Seeds (1950).
Many of her novels were published in translation in the Communist countries of Eastern Europe during the 1950s. The Australian Literature Collection includes a range of these editions, which are now comparatively rare. They were presented to the Library by the author, and several are signed by her.
- Die Braut von far-away. [Selected short stories, German]
- Berlin : Verlag Volk und Welt, 1962.
825.533 P947 D1 - Burzliwe lata. [Roaring nineties, Polish]
- Warszawa : Cytelnik, 1950.
825.533 P947 D15 - Devianostye gody : roman. [Roaring nineties, Russian]
- Moskva : Izdatelsvo Inostrannoi Literatury, 1954.
825.533 P947 D15 - Die goldene Meile. [Golden miles, German]
- Berlin : Verlag Volk und Welt, 1954.
825.533 P947 D16 - Goldrausch. [Roaring nineties, German]
- Berlin : Verlag Volk und Welt, 1954.
825.533 P947 D15 - Krylatye cemena : Roman. [Winged seeds, Russian]
- Moskva: Izdatelstvo Inostrannoi Literatury, 1954.
825.533 P947 D17 - Leta devadesata : pribeh ze zapadoaustralskych zlatych poli. [Roaring nineties, Czech]
- Praha : Svoboda, 1949.
825.533 P947 D15 - Okridlene sema. [Winged seeds, Czech]
- Matica Slovenska, 1952.
825.533 P947 D17 - Schwarzer Opal : Roman. [Black opal, German]
- Dusseldorf : Progress-Verlag, 1959.
825.533 P947 D4 - Skrzydlate Ziarna. [Winged seeds, Polish]
- Warszawa : Cytelnik, 1951.
825.533 P947 D17 - Tara Aurului. [Golden miles, Romanian]
- Bucuresti : Editura de Stat Pentru Literatura si Arta, 1954.
825.533 P947 D16 - Zlate mile. [Golden miles, Czech]
- Matica Slovenska, 1952.
825.533 P947 D16 - Zlota Mila. [Golden miles, Polish]
- Warszawa : Cytelnik, 1951.
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