conservation. In 1984, she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for services to literature and the environment, and she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Queensland in 1991. In 2006 a new suburb of Franklin was proposed for Canberra with the streets named after Australian women writers. The suburb now includes Nancy Cato Street. Awards 1933 South Australian Tennyson Medal for English Literature 1961 NT Poetry Prize 1963 Farmers International Poetry Prize 1978 the Noosa Arts Theatre Playwriting Competition, Best Play Award for Travellers through the night (inaugural winner) 1988 Alice Award by the Society of Women Writers Advance Australia award for environmental campaigning 1991 Honorary Doctor of Letters, University of Queensland 1984 Member of the Order of Australia (AM) Bibliography Novels and short stories All the Rivers Run (1958) Time, Flow Softly : a novel of the River Murray (1959) Green Grows the Vine (1960) But Still The Stream: a novel of the Murray River (1962) The Sea Ants: and Other Stories (1964) North-West by South (1965) Brown Sugar (1974) Queen Trucanini (1976) (with Vivienne Rae Ellis) Nin and the Scribblies (1976) Forefathers (1983) The Lady Lost in Time (1986) A Distant Island (1988) The Heart of the Continent (1989) Marigold (1992) Poetry The Darkened Window (1950) The Dancing Bough (1957) Plays "Travellers Through the Night" in Noosa One-act Winners. Volume 2 (1994) Non-fiction Mister Maloga : Daniel Matthews and his Mission, Murray River, 1864–1902 (1976) The Noosa Story: A Study in Unplanned Development (1979). Second edition: 1982. Third edition: 1989 River's End (1989) with Leslie McLeay Edited Jindyworobak Anthology 1950 Notes References External links Portrait of Nancy Cato, 1995 at the National Library of Australia 1917 births 2000 deaths Australian biographers Australian women novelists Australian women poets Writers from Adelaide Members of the Order of Australia 20th-century Australian novelists Women biographers 20th-century Australian women writers 20th-century Australian poets 20th-century biographers