Danilo Jovanovitch

Danilo Jovanovitch was an awardwinning Australian poet, actor and singer. He appeared in the Australian feature films 40,000 Horsemen, Gone To The Dogs and Ants in His Pants. His published poetry anthologies include Songs of a Bushland Rover and Rhyming Australian Poetry. His poetry has been published in such Australian newspapers as The Land, The Lyndhurst Chronicle, The Mudgee Guardian, The Western Advocate, The Muswellbrook Chronicle, The Tablelands Post, and The Manning River Times. He is considered by fans of his work as the living Henry Lawson, Australias most famous poet.

Jovanovitch was born in 1919 to George and Ella Jovanovitch in Cairns. When Danilo was four years old his parents moved to Sydney where they purchased the Silver Grill cafe in Kings Cross, which soon became a favoured meeting and eating place of soprano singer Gladys Moncrieff and others with artistic and theatrical flair.

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