Peter Bladen, (1922–2001) was an Australian poet born at Perth. He was later educated at the University of Western Australia, and the University of Melbourne. He travelled extensively through Australia, working in the 1960s as a journalist and writer, including writing for The Mavis Bramston Show. In the 1980s he moved to Turkey, where he became a Muslim and took the name Yusuf Bladen-Pryor. His first book, The Old Ladies at Newington, won the Commonwealth Jubilee Literary Prize. Bibliography The Old Ladies at Newington (1953) Masque for a Modern Minstrel (1962) Millefleurs (2000) (as Yusuf Bladen-Pryor) References 1922 births 20th-century Australian male writers 20th-century Australian poets 2001 deaths Australian emigrants to Turkey Australian male poets Australian Muslims Converts to Islam People educated at Perth Modern School University of Melbourne alumni University of Western Australia alumni