Background
Kate Llewellyn was born on January 15, 1936 in Jumby Bay, South Australia.
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Kate Llewellyn was born on January 15, 1936 in Jumby Bay, South Australia.
Llewellyn trained at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, graduating as a registered nurse in 1958. She graduated from the University of Adelaide with a BA in history and classics in 1978.
From 1965 to 1972 Kate owned and directed the Llewellyn Galleries, Dulwich, Adelaide and from 1971 to 1972 the Bonython Galleries, North Adelaide. Llewellyn worked on the Unley Planning Study 1978 and in 1979 worked in the Women's Advisory Unit of the SA Premier's Department.
Llewellyn began writing as an undergraduate. In addition to her poetry, she has written book reviews, criticisms and essays for Australian poetry and prose anthologies, magazines and newspapers and also on travel, gardening, food and people.
Llewellyn is a regular speaker at Writers' Festivals, including the 2015 Adelaide Writers' Week. She has also taught creative writing courses and been writer-in-residence at a number of colleges, universities and writers' centres across Australia.
Kate is famous for her works Trader Kate and the Elephants, Luxury, Honey, and Figs. Australian Writers, 1975-2000 edited by Selina Samuels includes a biography of Llewellyn by Dorothy Jones. In 2005 Llewellyn received a Literature Board Fellowship (Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships) valued at $80,000 to write an autobiography and book of poems.
In 1960, Kate married Richard Llewellyn, with whom she had two children. The couple divorced in 1972.
