Bryce is an Australia Post Legend
Bryce Courtenay is one of six Australian authors bestowed with the rare honour of featuring on this year's Australia Day stamp series, to be released today.
The Australia Post Legends Award honours living Australians who have made a lasting impression on our national identity and character.
The Legends will feature on 12 x 55c stamps, a first day cover, a set of maxicards and a prestige booklet. A commemorative biography, Novel Lives: Legends of the Written Word, by Jason Steger accompanies the stamp issue.
'The very concept and the reassurance of a stamp... it's a licence to travel and it goes anywhere in the world. That little imprimatur on an envelope containing all this personal stuff and you know it's going to get there! Now that's what a stamp can do,' Bryce said.
The stamps and book can be purchased at participating Australia Post outlets or on-line at www.auspost.com.au/legends
The 'Persimmon Tree" was the first Bryce Courtenay book I read and given to me for the long flight from Australia to Canada. The weather in the upper atmosphere was rough. I was so glad to have this exciting novel for "reading material". I've just finished "Fishing For Stars" ---wow---They remind me of the many years I lived in Australia. This man IS my favorite author.
Marcia Trerice
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada