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Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson
Banjo Paterson
Born	(1864-02-17)17 February 1864 "Narrambla", near Orange, New South Wales, British Empire
Died	5 February 1941(1941-02-05) (aged 76) Sydney, Australia
Occupation(s)	Author, Journalist, Composer, Clerk, Poet
Spouse	Alice Walker

Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson OBE (17 February 1864 – 5 February 1941) was an Australian bush poet, journalist and author. He wrote many ballads and poems about Australian life, focusing particularly on the rural and outback areas, including the district around Binalong, New South Wales, where he spent much of his childhood. Paterson's more notable poems include "Waltzing Matilda", "The Man from Snowy River" and "Clancy of the Overflow".

Biography

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Personal life

On 8 April 1903 he married Alice Emily Walker, of Tenterfield Station, in St Stephen's Presbyterian Church, in Tenterfield, New South Wales. Their first home was in Queen Street, Woollahra. The Patersons had two children, Grace (born in 1904) and Hugh (born in 1906).

Works

One of his most famous poems is "Waltzing Matilda", which was set to music and became one of Australia's most famous songs. Others include "The Man from Snowy River", which inspired a movie in 1982 and inspired a TV series in the 1990s, and "Clancy of the Overflow", the tale of a Queensland drover.

In 1905 he published a collection of bush ballads entitled Old Bush Songs.

Paterson's poems mostly presented a highly romantic view of rural Australia. Paterson himself, like the majority of Australians, was city-based and was a practising lawyer. His work is often compared to the prose of Henry Lawson, a contemporary of Paterson's, including his work "The Drover's Wife", which presented a considerably less romantic view of the harshness of rural existence of the late 19th century.

Paterson authored two novels; An Outback Marriage (1906) and The Shearer's Colt (1936), wrote many short stories; Three Elephant Power and Other Stories (1917), and wrote a book based on his experiences as a war reporter; Happy Dispatches (1934). He also wrote a book for children The Animals Noah Forgot (1933)

Contemporary recordings of many of Paterson's well known poems have been released by Jack Thompson, who played Clancy in the film adaptation of The Man from Snowy River.

Media reports in August 2008 stated that a previously unknown poem had been found in a war diary written during the Boer War.

Legacy

Banjo Paterson's image appears on the $10 note, along with an illustration inspired by "The Man From Snowy River" and, as part of the copy-protection microprint, the text of the poem itself.

In 1981 he was honoured on a postage stamp issued by Australia Post.

A. B. Paterson College, at Arundel on the Gold Coast, Australia, is named after Paterson.

The A. B. "Banjo" Paterson Library at Sydney Grammar School was named after Paterson.

The Festival of Arts in Orange, New South Wales, presents a biennial Banjo Paterson Award for poetry and one-act plays and there is also an annual National Book Council Banjo Award.

Selected works

• Clancy of the Overflow (1889)
• The Man from Snowy River (1890)
• In Defence of the Bush (1892)
• The Man from Ironbark (1892)
• Waltzing Matilda (1895)
• Hay and Hell and Booligal (1896)
• Mulga Bill's Bicycle (1896)
• T.Y.S.O.N. (1898)
• We're All Australians Now (1915)
• A Bush Lawyer (1933)

References

1. The Verse of A.B. (Banjo) Paterson Australian Bush Poetry, Verse & Music; Accessed on 6 June 2007
2. "Australian Honours". It's An Honour. Australian Government. Retrieved 2010-04-25. Services to literature (1939)
3. Clement Semmler (1988). "Paterson, Andrew Barton (Banjo) (1864 - 1941)". Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 11. MUP. pp. 154–157. Archived from the original on 16 March 2008. Retrieved 2008-04-03. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (|url-status= suggested) (help)
4. Banjo Paterson-His Life, Tenterfield Tourism
5. finepoets.com
6. Campion, Vikki (18 August 2008). "Poet's works discovered in war diary". The Courier-Mail.
7. "Australia Post website". Retrieved 2012-09-08.

• Notes on Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
• Australian Authors - A. B. ("Banjo") Paterson (1864-1941)
• "Banjo" Paterson

External links

• AB 'Banjo' Paterson Biographical Summary - Reserve Bank of Australia website
• Family Tree
• Photos of Banjo Paterson memorial outside Orange NSW
• Works by Banjo Paterson at Project Gutenberg
• Works by A B Paterson at Project Gutenberg Australia
• "The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses" on Freeread.co.au
• National Geographic Society magazine August 2004 article on "Banjo" Paterson
• Banjo Paterson Biography at www.wallisandmatilda.com.au
• Paterson, Andrew Barton (Banjo) (1864-1941) The National Library of Australia's Federation Gateway (Retrieved 5 August 2007)
• Listen to the first recording of the song Waltzing Matilda on australianscreen online
• 'Waltzing Matilda' was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2008.

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