A. D. Hope
A. D. (Alec) Hope (1907–2000) is one of the most influential and celebrated Australian poets of the twentieth century. In 1951, he took a post as the first professor of English at the newly founded Canberra University College, later the Australian …
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A.B. Paterson
A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson was born at Narrambla Station near Orange in New South Wales. He worked as a lawyer's clerk before becoming a solicitor. After the publication of The Man From Snowy River and Other Verses in 1895, he became something of a …
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Adam Aitken
Adam Aitken was born in London in 1960, to an Anglo-Australian father and a Thai mother. He spent some of his childhood with relatives in Thailand, and was educated at a convent in Malaysia, before coming to Australia in 1968. Adam was Associate …
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Ali Cobby Eckermann
Ali Cobby Eckermann’s first collections of poetry little bit long time and Kami (2010) both quickly sold out their first print runs. Her verse novel His Father’s Eyes was published by OUP in 2011. Her second verse novel Ruby Moonlight won the …
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Antigone Kefala
Antigone Kefala’s writing is remarkable for its clarity, intensity and austerity. Intimate in its recollections, social in nature, the Journals establishes her as one of Australia’s great diarists.
Antigone Kefala has written four works of …
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Banjo Woorunmurra
Born in 1915 at Fairfield Station in the Kimberley region of WA, Banjo Woorunmurra was the senior custodian of the Jandamarra story and a living repository of much of his people's history. Retiring from his working life as stockman, he became the …
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Barbara Baynton
Barbara Baynton was born in the Hunter Valley town of Scone, New South Wales, in 1857. In the 1890s, financially secure from her marriage to the retired surgeon Thomas Baynton, she began writing short stories, poetry and articles for the Bulletin. …
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Black Rock White City
Black Rock White City is a novel about the damages of war, the limits of choice, and the hope of …
Author:
A. S. Patrić
Publisher:
Transit Lounge
Published year:
2015
Burning Rice
These poems were written while Eileen Chong was an Australian Poetry Fellow in 2011–2012, mentored…
Year:
Secondary, Year 11, Year 12
Author:
Eileen Chong
Publisher:
Pitt Street Poetry
Published year:
2012
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Cate Kennedy
Cate Kennedy is the author of the highly acclaimed novel The World Beneath, which won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards in 2010. She is an award-winning short-story writer whose work has been published widely. Her …
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