Background
Cato is married and travelled extensively overseas with her husbamd. They had one daughter and two sons.
Cato is married and travelled extensively overseas with her husbamd. They had one daughter and two sons.
She studied English Literature and Italian at the University of Adelaide, graduated in 1939.
Cato's most famous work is her trilogy, known as All the Rivers Run. It was originally published as three separate volumes: All the Rivers Run (1958), Time, Flow Softly (1959) and But Still the Stream (1962). However, since the 1970s it has been generally published as one large volume containing the three books. It was made into a TV mini-series All the Rivers Run, which was broadcast in 1983.
In 1984, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia in 1991.
In 2006 a new suburb of Franklin was proposed for Canberra The suburb now includes Nancy Cato Street.
In 1984, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to literature and the environment.