Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey was born in South Africa and raised between South Africa and Australia. She studied social anthropology at Harvard as an undergraduate and received her Masters in social anthropology from New York University. Her debut novel, Blood Kin…
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Henry Lawson
Henry Lawson was born at Grenfell, New South Wales, in 1867. He was educated briefly at several schools, but was sometimes kept home by his father to help with his carpentry. At the age of nine Lawson experienced problems with his ears and suffered …
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Isobelle Carmody
Isobelle Carmody is Australia's most highly acclaimed author of fantasy titles for older readers. She began her first book,Obernewtyn, when she was fourteen and since then she has written some of our greatest works of fantasy. Whilst she is perhaps …
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Sally Morgan
Sally Morgan was born in Perth, in 1951. She has published books for both adults and children, including her acclaimed autobiography, My Place. She has also established a national reputation as an artist and has works in many private and public …
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John Marsden
John Marsden was born in Victoria, Australia in 1950. He went to many different primary schools, and from an early age enjoyed the journeys into magical worlds that reading could provide. His teachers in Grade 4 and Grade 6 encouraged him to write, …
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Shaun Tan
Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the northern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia. In school he became known as the 'good drawer' which partly compensated for always being the shortest kid in every class. He graduated from the University of …
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Pat Grant
Pat Grant is a renowned Melbourne cartoonist, writer and zine maker, whose work has appeared in Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, and The Lifted Brow as well as in magazines such as Australia’s Surfing Life, Tracks, Beat, and 3D World. Grant is the …
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Nicki Greenberg
Nicki Greenberg is a writer and illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia. Her first picture books, The Digits series, were published when she was fifteen years old and sold over 400,000 copies in Australia and New Zealand. She later spent ten …
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Don Watson
Don Watson's Recollections of a Bleeding Heart: Paul Keating Prime Minister, won the AGE Book of the Year and Non-Fiction Prizes, the Brisbane Courier Mail Book of the Year, the National Biography Award and the Australian Literary Studies Association…
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John Bryson
Born in Melbourne, John Bryson studied law at Melbourne University and later joined the Victorian Bar. He was a member of the then Literature Board and later its deputy chairman during the 1970s. His fiction is published in literary magazines and …
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