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About Geoffrey Lehmann
- Geoffrey Lehmann (born 28 June 1940) is an Australian poet, children's writer, and tax lawyer.
- Lehmann grew up in McMahon's Point, Sydney, and attended the Shore School in North Sydney.
- He graduated in arts and law from the University of Sydney in 1960 and 1963 respectively.
- In 1961, he demonstrated in a student newspaper article that fellow student Robert Hughes had published plagiarised poetry by Terence Tiller and others, and a drawing by Leonard Baskin.Lehmann was the first Australian poet to be published by the London publishing house Faber and Faber.
- He received the 2015 Prime Minister's Literary Award for poetry.Lehmann has worked as a solicitor in his own small law firm, as an academic lawyer at the University of New South Wales, and as a corporate tax lawyer, having retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- He continues to write as a literary reviewer for The Australian newspaper.
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