Morris Langlo West He was born in St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia on April 26, 1916. At the age of fourteen, he entered the Christian Brothers seminary seeking a refuge for his difficult childhood. He attended the University of Melbourne and worked as a teacher. In 1941 he left the seminary without taking perpetual vows. In World War II he worked as a code breaker, and for a time was the private secretary to former Prime Minister Billy Hughes.
After the war, West He became a successful radio soap opera writer and producer. In 1955 he left Australia to build an international career as a writer. With his family, he lived in Austria, Italy, England and the USA, including a stint as a Vatican correspondent for the British newspaper Daily Mail. He returned He returned to Australia in 1982.
Morris West he wrote 30 books and many plays, and several of his novels were adapted for the cinema. His books were published in 28 languages and he sold more than 60 million copies worldwide. Every new book he wrote after becoming a renowned writer sold more than a million copies.
West received many awards and accolades for his long writing career, including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the WH Heinemann Prize from the Royal Society of Literature for The devil’s advocate. In 1978 he was elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science. He was made a member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 1985, and became an Officer of the Order (AO) in 1997.
Morris West died at his desk on October 9, 1999.
Morris West He published bestseller after bestseller, and his novels gained a reputation for being incredibly prescient. The fisherman’s sandals (1963) was published on the day Pope John XXIII died, and predicted the election of an Eastern European pope. The Pope protagonist of Jesters of god (1981), feels overwhelmed by his position and resigns, foreshadowing the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI in 2013, despite the fact that at the time of its publication many believed that such a scenario was unlikely. West’s latest papal thriller, Eminence (1998), also announces the election of a South American pope. The Embassador(1965), emerging from reports of Vietnam’s first Buddhist cremation, revealed insights into the Western dilemma in South Vietnam and The salamander (1973) predicted the involvement of state and church officials in neo-fascist conspiracies in Italy. The list of titles of West also includes Summer of the Red Wolf (1971), Babel’s tower (1968), Harlequin (1974), The navigator (1976) and Proteus (1979), among others.