Katharine Susannah Prichard was the first Australian novelist to gain international recognition. In 1915, her novel, The Pioneers, won the Hodder and Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize for Australasia. Fifty years later, with thirteen novels to her credit including Coonardoo, The Black Opal, Children of The Hurricane and Intimate Strangers , five collections of short stories, ten plays, two films, two volumes of verse, she has been translationed into thirteen foreign languages and was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Litreature in 1951. Katherine once confessed that she was born "with ink in her veins". Katharine Susannah Pritchard died in 1969.