亨利·劳森（1876－1922）是澳大利亚近现代诗人和小说家．生于新南威尔士中部的淘金区，父亲是位到澳洲淘金的挪威水手．他的童年是在矿区和农场度过的．九岁时患突发性耳疾，并一生困扰着他．他仅受到三年的学校教育，但他的母亲是位颇有文学造诣的妇女，能写诗，这对劳森后 Henry Lawson (1876-1922) is a modern Australian poet and novelist. Born in the gold-panning area of ​​central New South Wales, his father is a Norwegian sailor who has been gold-mining in Australia. His childhood was spent in mines and farms. He suffered from sudden ear problems when he was nine years old and haunted him all his life. He received only three years of school education, but his mother was a literary attainable woman, able to write poetry, which Lawson