Record ID:
35068197 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
Heading:
Birth:
  • 1939
Death:
  • 20200822
Occupations:
  • clerk librarian journalist editor
Notes:
  • John Bangsund (b.1939) Born and schooled in Northcote, Victoria. Worked 1954-71 as clerk, bookseller's assistant (Cheshire), librarian (Victorian Railways Institute), publisher's representative (Cassell), printer's reader (Wilke), journalist (Age Publications) etc.; 1972-78 as subeditor (journalist, A grade), Parliamentary Reporting Staff, Canberra; editor (clerk, class 6), Australian Government Publishing Service; senior editor, Rigby Ltd, Adelaide. Freelance editor/proofreader, 1976-2005. Assistant editor (from 1994 editorial consultant), Meanjin, 1988-2005. Publisher, Australian Science Fiction Review and other publications, variously titled, 1966-2005. Editor, Society of Editors Newsletter, more often than not, 1978-96; in that time also served on the committee in every capacity except treasurer, even standing in as acting president on one occasion. FAW Barbara Ramsden Award, 1984. A. Bertram Chandler Award, 2001 http://editorsvictoria.org/publications/9-uncategorised/475-john-bangsund-awarded-1987
  • Books and Publishing, accessed 19 Jan 2021: (John Bangsund, who died of complications from Covid-19 on 22 August) https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2020/08/26/155655/vale-john-bangsund/
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)6479
  • 000000068589
  • abv02042136
Cataloguing source:
  • AuCNLKIN eng rda ANL VSL
Authentication code:
  • anuc