Alexis Wright
Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history …
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M. J. Hyland
M. J. Hyland was born in London to Irish parents in 1968 and spent her early childhood in Dublin. She studied English and law at the University of Melbourne, Australia and worked as a lawyer for several years. Her first novel, How the Light Gets In (…
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Tim Winton
Tim Winton is the author of 30 books. His work has been widely translated and adapted for film, television, stage and radio. He lives in Western Australia.
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J. M. Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee's work includes Waiting For The Barbarians, Life & Times of Michael K, Boyhood, Youth, Disgrace and Diary of a Bad Year. He was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003…
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Mudrooroo Nyoongah (Colin Johnson)
Born Colin Johnson at Cuballing in Western Australia in 1938, Mudrooroo left Perth for Melbourne in the 1950s. He studied at night while working in the Motor Registration Office and State Library. He wrote Wild Cat Falling (1965), which was welcomed…
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Murray Bail
Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. The Pages was published in 2008 to great acclaim.
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Rosie Scott
Rosie Scott was the highly acclaimed author of six novels, plus a collection each of short stories, poems and essays. Her novels were finalists in major book awards including, the NSW Premiers Fiction Award, The Banjo Patterson Writing Award, The …
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George Johnston
George Johnston was born in Melbourne in 1912, the son of working-class parents. At sixteen his career as a journalist was launched with the publication of several articles in the Melbourne Argus. By the time the Second World War broke out, Johnston…
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