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Deirdre Cash was born on 1924 in Australia, is an Australian novelist and singer 1924–1963. Discover Deirdre Cash's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 39 years old?

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1930

Her father Leo Evaristus Cash, a salesman, had been active in the 1930s New Theatre movement in Melbourne, while her mother Valerie (née Walsh) was an operetta singer.

Her parents separated when Valerie and her younger brother were still young.

They were brought up by relatives in Calca, South Australia and then by unmarried aunts in Melbourne.

Deirdre boarded at the Convent of Mercy, Mornington, Victoria.

After matriculating, Deirdre enrolled at what became the Melba Conservatorium of Music.

1948

On 4 February 1948, she married Michael Damian Blackall, a law student, but left her husband and young son to earn a living as a torch singer and teacher of ballroom dancing in Melbourne.

1956

She remarried in 1956, to a coastal seaman, Otto Ole Distler Olsen, with whom she lived at various ports.

Cash turned to full-time writing after a bout of illness.

1962

Her first book The Delinquents (1962), set in Brisbane, was published in London under the pseudonym Criena Rohan.

It was well-received in the London press:

the Times Literary Supplement called Lola's characterization "a triumph".

1963

Deirdre Cash (1924 – 11 March 1963) was an Australian novelist and torch singer, who wrote under the pseudonym Criena Rohan.

Her first novel, The Delinquents, set in Brisbane, was described as a "back-street Tristan and Isolde".

Deirdre Cash was born in Melbourne into an Irish-Australian Catholic family.

Cash published her second novel Down by the Dockside, set in Melbourne, in 1963.

A possible third work in manuscript, The House with the Golden Door, has never been found.

She died of colonic carcinoma in Melbourne on 11 March 1963, aged 38, leaving a husband, a daughter by her second marriage, and a son by her first.

1989

In 1989 the book was turned into a teenage cult film, directed by Chris Thomson and starring Kylie Minogue and Charlie Schlatter.

According to a recent literary history of Queensland, the novel was "of a tradition of critical social realism... largely absent from 'home-grown' Brisbane writing in the postwar decades."

It notes "the crisp authenticity of the dialogue".

2014

The novel was reissued in 2014 by a Melbourne publisher, with an introduction by the fellow Australian novelist Nick Earls.