Blanche d’Alpuget, writer and wife of Bob Hawke, dies aged 82

Anthony Albanese has mourned Blanche d’Alpuget’s death, saying in a statement that Australia had ‘lost a true one-off’ Photograph: Patrick Riviere/Getty Images

Blanche d’Alpuget, the Australian writer and widow of former prime minister Bob Hawke, has died at the age of 82.

D’Alpuget was an acclaimed writer, whose work includes the highly regarded biography of Hawke that won the New South Wales premier’s award.