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Edwin Colin Simpson OBE (4 November 1908 – 8 February 1983), known professionally by his pen name Colin Simpson, was an Australian journalist, author and traveller. After a successful career as a journalist with Sydney newspapers and a writer of radio documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, he became a freelance writer of "popular travel books" which sold more than half a million copies. He was "instrumental in securing the Public Lending Right legislation" for Australian authors.

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rdfs:comment	Edwin Colin Simpson OBE (4 November 1908 – 8 February 1983), known professionally by his pen name Colin Simpson, was an Australian journalist, author and traveller. After a successful career as a journalist with Sydney newspapers and a writer of radio documentaries for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, he became a freelance writer of "popular travel books" which sold more than half a million copies. He was "instrumental in securing the Public Lending Right legislation" for Australian authors. (en)
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