Norma Kathleen Hemming | |
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 Norma Kathleen Hemming in costume, 1956 | |
| Born | September 1928 Ilford, Essex, London, England, United Kingdom |
| Died | 4 July 1960 (aged 31) Melbourne, Australia |
| Pen name | N. K. Hemming, Nerina Hilliard |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | British |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Genre | Science fiction, Romance novel |
Norma Kathleen Hemming (born September 1928 in Ilford, Essex, London, England – d. 4 July 1960 in Melbourne, Australia) was a British-Australian writer of science fiction and romance novels. She was Australia's 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 wrote 8 romance novels for Mills & 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.