Shane Maloney
Shane Maloney is one of Australia’s most popular novelists. His award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series – Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In – is characterised by a strong sense of humour and …
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Miles Franklin
Generous, passionate, creative, prickly, critical, self-doubting, ‘as paradoxical as a platypus’. Miles Franklin defies easy categorisation. Her books, letters and diaries provide evidence of a complex personality, one who often struggled, but …
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Richard Flanagan
Richard Flanagan was born in Longford, Tasmania, in 1961. His books include Death Of A River Guide, The Sound Of One Hand Clapping, Gould's Book of Fish, The Unknown Terrorist and Wanting. He directed a feature film version of The Sound Of One …
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Eve Langley
Eve Langley (1904–74) was the daughter of Arthur Alexander Langley and Mira Davidson. Her father, of Irish descent, was an itinerant agricultural labourer and a talented violinist. He persuaded Mira, the daughter of a well-established Gippsland …
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Christos Tsiolkas
Christos Tsiolkas is the author of six novels, including Loaded, which was made into the feature film Head-On, The Jesus Man and Dead Europe, which won the 2006 Age Fiction Prize and the 2006 Melbourne Best Writing Award, as well as being made into a…
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Joseph Furphy
Tom Collins, a slang byword for the source of all rumours, was the pseudonym adopted by Joseph Furphy. The son of Protestant Irish immigrants, he was born at Yering Station, Victoria, in 1843. As a boy, he helped his father work the land, and later …
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Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri author, born in Australia in 1983 and based in France. Her first novel, Swallow the Air was critically acclaimed. She was named a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist, and has won numerous literary …
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Kim Scott
Kim Scott grew up on the South Coast of Western Australia. As a descendant of those who first created human society along that edge of ocean, he is proud to be one among those who call themselves Noongar. He began writing for publication when he …
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Steven Carroll
Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre…
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Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson was born in Queensland in 1916 and began writing novels at the age of 40. Since then she has received many awards for her work. Twice she has won the prestigious Miles Franklin award, for Tirra Lirra By the River in 1978 and for The…
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