Kylie Tennant
| Kylie Tennant | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kathleen Kylie Tennant 12 March 1912 Manly, New South Wales |
| Died | 28 February 1988 (aged 75) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | The Battlers, All the Proud Tribesmen |
| Notable awards | ALS Gold Medal 1942, Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers 1960 |
| Years active | 1931-1988 |
Kathleen Kylie Tennant AO (/ˈkaɪliː/; 12 March 1912 – 28 February 1988) was an Australian novelist, playwright, short-story writer, critic, biographer and historian.
Tennant was born in Manly, New South Wales; she was educated at Brighton College in Manly and Sydney University, though she left without graduating. She was a publicity officer for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, as well as working as a journalist, union organiser, reviewer (for The Sydney Morning Herald), a publisher's literary adviser and editor, and a member of the Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board. She married L. C. Rodd in 1933; they had two children (a daughter, Benison, in 1946 and a son, John Laurence, in 1951).
Her work was known for its well-researched, realistic, yet positive portrayals of the lives of the underprivileged in Australia. In a video interview filmed in 1986, three years before her death for the Australia Council's Archival Film Series, Tennant told how she lived as the people she wrote about, travelling as an unemployed itinerant worker during the Depression years, living in Aboriginal communities and spending a short time in prison for research.
Two of Tennant's novels, Battlers and Ride on Stranger, set in the 1930s have been made into television mini-series.
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