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Life Summary

Name	Alec Derwent Hope
Born	21 July, 1907 Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Died	13 July, 2000 (aged 92) Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Religious Influence	Presbyterian Includes the religion in which subjects were raised, have chosen themselves, attendance at religious schools and/or religious funeral rites; Atheism and Agnosticism have been included.
Related Entries	[View as tree] Wright, Judith Arundell (friend) McAuley, James Phillip (friend) Harwood, Gwendoline Nessie (friend) Green, Dorothy (work colleague) Brissenden, Robert Francis (work colleague) Moore, Tom Inglis (colleague) Diesendorf, Margaret (acquaintance) White, Patrick Victor (acquaintance) Harris, Maxwell Henley (opposed) Holme, Ernest Rudolph (teacher) Brereton, John Le Gay (teacher) Anderson, John (teacher) Bolton, Alexander Thorley (collaborator) Stewart, Douglas Alexander (related entry)
Education *	Bathurst High School (NSW) (student, 1921-1923) Fort Street Boys' High School (Sydney) (student, 1924-1924) University of Sydney (student, 1925-1927) Oxford University (student, 1928-1929)
Occupation or Descriptor *	abortion law reformer academic (1938-1946) New South Wales, Australia poet (1938-1946) New South Wales, Australia academic (1946-1950) Victoria, Australia literary scholar (1946-1950) Victoria, Australia poet (1946-1950) Victoria, Australia academic (1951-1968) Australian Capital Territory, Australia literary scholar (1951-2000) Australian Capital Territory, Australia poet (1951-2000) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Awards	James King of Irrawang Travelling Scholarship (University of Sydney) (recipient, 1928) Grace Leven prize (recipient, 1956) Gold Medal (Australian Literature Society) (recipient, 1966) Ingram Merrill Award for poetry (recipient, 1969) Levinson Prize for poetry (recipient, 1969) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1972) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1972) Age Book of the Year Award (recipient, 1976) Companion of the Order of Australia (recipient, 1981) Officer of the Order of the British Empire (recipient, 1981)
Legacies *	A. D. Hope Building (ANU) (eponym)
Key Organisations *	Australian Academy of the Humanities (member, 1956) Commonwealth Literary Fund advisory board (member, 1972-1973) Australia Council (Literature Board) (member, 1973-1974) Association for the Study of Australian Literature (patron, 1978) American Academy of Arts and Sciences (foreign honorary member, 1989-2000)
Workplaces *	Dept of Labour and Industry (NSW) (public servant, 1933-1936) Sydney Teachers' College (lecturer, 1938-1946) University of Melbourne (English) (academic, 1946-1950) Australian National University (English) (academic, 1951) Australian National University (library) (emeritus library fellow, 1968-2000)

* Dates are approximate