Norma K. Hemming

Norma Kathleen Hemming was a BritishAustralian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australias first significant female science fiction writer. As N. K. Hemming published twenty stories in the 1950s, and also wrote and appeared in a series of plays that were performed at Australian science fiction conventions. Under the name Nerina Hilliard, she also wroteromance novels for Mills amp Boon. She is now commemorated by the Australian Science Fiction Foundation through the Norma K. Hemming Award, inaugurated at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne in September 2010.

Norma Kathleen Hemming was born in Ilford, Essex, in September 1928. After attending a girls school, she trained as a secretary. In October 1948, she emigrated to Sydney on the SS Orontes, with her parents and younger brother.

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