Contribution and Recognition
Cusack was a foundation member of the Australian Society of Authors in 1963 and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1981 for her contribution to Australian literature.
Cusack was instrumental in promoting the democratic, progressive traditions of her much loved country, both as a sought-after celebrity speaker in Australia as well as a cultural commentator during her long stays in Europe from the 1940s to the 1970s. It was a socially engaged, writerly stance shared by her famed mentor Miles Franklin and other great names in Australian literary history.
In 1998, the International Federation of University Women (IFUW), based in Geneva, honoured Dymphna Cusack's role in postwar European culture and politics by acknowledging the first doctoral thesis written on the author. The IFUW created "The Australia Award" for Dr. Tania Peitzker's literary and cultural studies analysis of Cusack, funded by the University of Potsdam, Germany.
In 2011, Cusack was one of 11 authors, including Elizabeth Jolley and Manning Clark, to be permanently recognised by the addition of brass plaques at the Writers’ Walk in Sydney.
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