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Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour (6 June 192723 March 2015)〔(Alan Seymour unravelled not just Anzac day but Australia's 'knotty roots' )〕 was an Australian playwright and author. He is best known for the 1958 play ''The One Day of the Year''. His international reputation relates not only to this early play, but also to his many screenplays, television scripts and adaptations of novels for film and television.〔
==Career==
Seymour was born in Fremantle, Western Australia.〔 His father was killed in a wharf accident when Alan was nine, and after that he was brought up by his sister May and her husband, Alfred Chester Cruthers. He was educated at Perth Modern School, leaving at 15 after failing to complete the Junior Certificate. He found work as a radio announcer in a commercial radio station 6PM. During his two years there he wrote a number of short radio plays that were broadcast live. In 1945 he moved to Sydney, where he worked as an advertising copy-writer with 2UE.
He returned to Perth after the war where he worked as a free-lance writer for ABC Radio. Seymour became ABC Radio's film critic. He joined a commercial radio station 6KY as an announcer and copy-writer and after six months was offered an announcing post at the ABC. In November 1949, Seymour returned to Sydney where he became an educational and freelance drama writer for ABC Radio and later television. From 1953 to 1957 he was theatrical director for the Sydney Opera Group. His first play, ''Swamp Creatures'', premièred by the Canberra Repertory Society, was a finalist in the London ''Observer'' play competition in 1957.〔
Seymour left Australia in 1961 and worked in London as a television writer, producer and commissioning editor with the BBC, and as a theatre critic for ''The London Magazine''.〔 From 1966 to 1971 he lived in Turkey and wrote novels, stage plays and magazine articles. From 1974 to 1981 Seymour was a script editor and occasional producer with BBC Television, after which he returned to freelance writing.〔 He returned to live in Sydney in 1995.
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