Anne Mary Ross Fairbairn AM (also Body, née Reid; 1928 – 22 October 2018)[1] was a widely published Australian poet,[2] journalist[3] and expert in Arab culture.[4] She is the only granddaughter of Australia's fourth Prime Minister, George Reid.[5]
In 1965, she married Geoffrey Forrester Fairbairn,[6] a Professor in the Department of History at the Australian National University.[2] Geoffrey died in London of lung cancer on 11 September 1980.[7] Fairbairn has been known for her work in bringing together Australian and Arab cultures for over 30 years through poetry.[8]
In 1995, she was awarded the Banjo Paterson Writing Award for Open Poetry.[1] This was followed by the Order of Australia in 1998 for services to literature and international relations between Australia and the Middle East.[1]
In September 2005 Dr Fairbairn received the award,『Living for Others – Promoting Peace through Media, Arts and Culture』from the International and Inter-Religious Federation for World Peace presented in Sydney by Professor Marie Bashir AO, Governor of New South Wales.[9]
She died at the age of 90 on 22 October 2018.[10]
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