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. S. Patrić
A. S. Patrić is a bookseller and teacher of creative writing. He is the author of two short story collections, Las Vegas for Vegans and The Rattler & other stories, and also a novella called Bruno Kramzer. His debut novel Black Rock White City …
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A.B. Facey
A.B. Facey was born in 1894 and grew up on the Kalgoorlie goldfields and in the wheatbelt of Western Australia. His father died before he was two and he was deserted by his mother soon afterwards. He was looked after by his grandmother until he was …
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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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A.J. Betts
A.J. Betts is an author, teacher, speaker and cyclist. Zac & Mia, the winner of the Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing, is her third novel for young adults. Her others are ShutterSpeed and Wavelength. She lives in Perth, and …
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Aaron Blabey
Aaron Blabey has won a CBCA (Children's Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year and an AFI Award, and his book The Ghost of Miss Annabel Spoon won the Patricia Wrightson Award in the 2013 NSW Premier's Literary Awards and also won a Children's …
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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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Adrian Threlfall
ADRIAN THRELFALL is a lecturer in history at Victoria University, Melbourne, and a member of the education team at the Shrine of Remembrance, Victoria. A former infantryman in the Australian Army Reserve, he is the author of Reg Saunders: An …
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Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour, born 1927 in Fremantle, Western Australia, is an Australian playwright and author best known for his play The One Day of the Year (1958). When Alan was nine, his father was killed in a wharf accident, after that he was raised by his …
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Alex Miller
Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, The Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the 1993 Commonwealth …
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