Philip Hodgins

Quick Facts

Full Name	Philip Hodgins
Occupation	Australian poet
Date Of Birth	Jan 28, 1959(1959-01-28)
Age	65
Date Of Death	August 18, 1995, Maryborough, Australia
Birthplace	Shepparton
Country	Australia
Horoscope	Aquarius

Philip Hodgins Biography

Philip Hodgins is one of the most popular and richest Australian poet who was born on January 28, 1959 in Shepparton, Australia. His papers, writing and correspondence are held in the Australian Defence Force Academy Library in Canberra. The annual Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal is awarded each year to a consistently outstanding Australian writer. A photograph of Philip Hodgins by A. T. Bolton (1926–1996) is in the National Library of Australia online collection: Portrait of Philip Hodgins, 1993

In 1990, Hodgins married the writer Janet Shaw, with whom he had two children, Anna and Helen.

In November 1983 Hodgins was admitted to hospital and diagnosed as having chronic myeloid leukaemia, a cancer of the blood and bone marrow. His experiences as a leukaemia patient form the subject of much of his later work.

Philip Hodgins Net Worth

Philip Hodgins is one of the richest Australian poet from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Philip Hodgins 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Philip Hodgins was born in Shepparton, Victoria, in 1959 and spent his childhood on his parents’ dairy farm at nearby Katandra West. He went to school in Geelong and later moved to Melbourne where he worked for several years with a publishing house, before moving to Maryborough in central Victoria.

Philip Ian Hodgins (28 January 1959 – 18 August 1995) was an Australian poet, whose work appeared in such major publications as The New Yorker. Peter Rose called him ‘probably the most loved [Australian] poet of his generation’, noting that ‘his admirers ranged from… Alan Hollinghurst to Ron Barassi and Peter Porter to Les Murray’. Clive James ventured that ‘if he had lived as long as his admired Goethe, he would probably have been Goethe’, although it must be said that he was receiving the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the time.

Hodgins was a co-founder of the Mildura Writers’ Festival. He died of leukemia in Maryborough on 18 August 1995. A few weeks before Hodgins’ death, the writer Peter Goldsworthy wrote his obituary and sent it to him for perusal. He received a bottle of Hodgins’ favourite wine, and a note saying it was “an obituary to die for”.

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James Ranked on the list of most popular Australian poet. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Philip Hodgins celebrates birthday on January 28 of every year.