Maxell Walter Dumont Dunn (? – 4 September 1963) was an Australia

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n editor, publisher, poet, and literary translator.

Biography

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Dunn's early life remains obscure, though he claimed to have been educated at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, and in France and the United States, before moving to Australia in 1924, and settling in Melbourne

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. His claims to have been in the Royal Flying Corps

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 in World War I

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 also seem unsubstantiated. Dunn worked as a psychotherapist, poet, publisher, and journalist with the Argus

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, Smith's Weekly

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, and other Melbourne newspapers and magazines. Dunn also worked as a literary translator from the Chinese. Dunn became a Buddhist priest in 1955. He died of cancer on in the Melbourne suburb of South Yarra

South Yarra, Victoria

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Works

• War in the Sky, Melbourne: Popular Publications, 1940

• Random Elements, Melbourne: Anvil Press, 1943

• No Asterisks: Poems, Melbourne: Anvil Press, 1944

• Time of Arrival, with a foreword by A. R. Chisholm, Melbourne: Anvil Press, 1947

• The Mirror and the Rose, Melbourne: Anvil Press, 1954

• Into the Radiance, Melbourne: Dhamma Library, 1955

• Portrait of a Country, Melbourne: Anvil Press, 1962

• The Jewel String of Dipankara, Melbourne: Levite Press, 1968