Randolph Stow
Randolph Stow, winner of the Patrick White Award in 1979, was born in Geraldton, Western Australia in 1935. As an undergraduate he published two novels and a collection of poems. Stow tutored in English at the University of Adelaide, studied …
View Books by Randolph Stow
Shirley Hazzard
Shirley Hazzard is author of the award-winning novel The Great Fire (Virago 2004). Her other novels include Greene on Capri, a memoir of Graham Greene, and five works of fiction, including The Transit of Venus, winner of the 1981 National Book …
View Books by Shirley Hazzard
Peter Carey
Peter Carey was born in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, and now lives in New York. He is the author of fourteen novels (including one for children), two volumes of short stories, and two books on travel. Amongst other prizes, Carey has won the Booker Prize …
View Books by Peter Carey
Peter Temple
Peter Temple is the author of nine novels, including four books in the Jack Irish series. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction five times, and his widely acclaimed novels have been published in over twenty countries.
The Broken Shore won…
View Books by Peter Temple
David Ireland
David Ireland was born in 1927 on a kitchen table in Lakemba in south-western Sydney. He lived in many places and worked at many jobs, including greenskeeper, factory hand, and for an extended period in an oil refinery, before he became a full-time …
View Books by David Ireland
Patrick White
Patrick White was born in England in 1912 and taken to Australia, where his father owned a sheep farm, when he was six months old. He was educated in England at Cheltenham college and King's College, Cambridge. He settled in London, where he wrote …
View Books by Patrick White
Andrew McGahan
Andrew McGahan was born in Dalby, Queensland, but has lived and worked mostly in Brisbane. His first novel Praise (1992) was winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Since then his writing includes an award-winning stage play, Bait, and the AFI…
View Books by Andrew McGahan
Christopher Koch
Christopher Koch was born and educated in Tasmania. Most of his life was spent in Sydney, where he worked for some years as a radio producer in the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He was a full-time writer from 1972, winning international …
View Books by Christopher Koch
Jill Jones
Jill Jones is a Sydney poet and writer. Her work has been published extensively in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the USA and UK. Her first book, The Mask and the Jagged Star, won the Mary Gilmore Award in 1993. The Book of Possibilities, 1997, was …
View Books by Jill Jones
Jennifer Strauss
Jennifer Strauss is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and is a respected critic, literary historian and poet…
View Books by Jennifer Strauss