Gantner, Neilma (1922 - )

• Myer, Neilma (maiden name)
• Sidney, Neilma (pseudonym)

Neilma Gantner, along with her son Carillo and brother Baillieu Myer, established The Gantner Myer Collection of Australian Aboriginal Art. Assembled over a four-year period by curator Jennifer Isaacs, the collection was unvieled in San Francisco in September 1999.

Neilma is the eldest daughter of Sidney and Merlyn (née Baillieu) Myer. Like her three siblings, she was born in San Francisco, California, but raised in Melbourne. Neilma completed her teritary education at the Universities of Melbourne and Stanford. In 1941 she married Vallejo Gantner (later divorced) and they were to have two sons (one deceased).

Neilma Gantner was a member of the Executive of International Social Service, and of the Myer Foundation and the Sidney Myer Fund. She worked as a novelist, poet and short story writer under the pseudonym of Neilma Sidney, and founded the Four Winds Cultural Festival (Bermagui, New South Wales).

Parents

• Myer, Margery (Merlyn) Baillieu (1900 - 1982)

Siblings

• Southey, Marigold Merlyn Baillieu (1928 - )

Books

• Sidney, Neilma, Saturday afternoon and other stories, Cheshire, Melbourne, 1959, 192 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, Beyond the bay, F. W. Cheshire, Melbourne, 1966, 348 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, The Eye of the needle, Lloyd O'Neil, [Melbourne], 1970, 220 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, The return, Thomas Nelson (Australia), West Melbourne, Vic., 1976, 280 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, Journey to Mourilyan : a coastal pilgrimage, J.M. Dent, Melbourne, 1986, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, Sunday evening : stories, McPhee Gribble/Penguin, Fitzroy, Vic., 1988, 192 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, Journey to Mourilyan : a coastal pilgrimage, Kerr, Balmain, N.S.W., 1992, 208 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma, The sweet cool south wind, Barragga Books, [Bermagui South, N.S.W.], 1993, 236 pp. [ Details... ]
• Sidney, Neilma and Williams, Margaret (illustrated by), Beaches, Oxford University Press, London ; Melbourne, 1964, 32 pp. [ Details... ]

See also

• Adelaide, Debra, Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide, Title Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide. Published, Pandora Press, London ; Sydney, 1988, 208 pp. [ Details... ]