Ena Noël

Ena Noël's name is synonymous in Australia with children's literature and with IBBY, the International Board on Books for Young People.

In 1952–53 she toured Britain and Europe with a solo lecture-dance program entitled The life cycle of an Australian Aboriginal woman, dancing to John Antill's music for Corroboree.

In 1971 she organised Australia's only entry for the Biennial of Illustrations in Bratislava; and in 1992 she was the Australian judge for the American Ezra Jack Keats Award in children's literature.

On the occasion of the Lady Cutler Award it was said: 'In the world of children's literature Ena Noël's name is a password nationally and internationally.

Maurice Saxby was nominated by Ena Noël, and then elected to the jury of the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1984 and 1986.

Ena Noël co-ordinated and lectured at short summer courses in secondary school librarianship at the University of Sydney in the 1960s.