Arnold Zable was born in Wellington, New Zealand, and grew up in the inner Melbourne suburb of Carlton. He has traveled and lived in the USA, India, Papua New Guinea, Europe, Southeast Asia and China, and now lives in Melbourne with his wife and son…
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Born in 1915 at Fairfield Station in the Kimberley region of WA, Banjo Woorunmurra was the senior custodian of the Jandamarra story and a living repository of much of his people's history. Retiring from his working life as stockman, he became the …
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Barbara Baynton was born in the Hunter Valley town of Scone, New South Wales, in 1857. After being educated at home Baynton worked briefly as a governess before in 1880 marrying the first of her three husbands, whom she divorced after a decade. In …
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Barbara Harahan was born and grew up in Adelaide, and was living there at the time of her death in 1991. A leading printmaker as well as novelist, she went to London in the early 1960s to study at the Central School of Art, and taught in art schools …
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Barry Dickins is an author, artist and playwright based in Melbourne. His writing for the stage spans more than two decades and includes the plays: Royboys, A Dickins’ Christmas, The Death of Minnie, Reservoir by Night and Insouciance…
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Barry Hill is an acclaimed historian, writer and poet. His books include The Best Picture, Raft, Sitting In (an award-winning account of the longest industrial action in Australian history) and The Road To Uluru. Broken Song won many awards on its …
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Bern Emmerichs is a highly celebrated artist in Australia. Her works are in the Australian National Gallery, the National Gallery of Victoria and collections all around the world. Bern Emmerichs is renowned for her work which explores historical …
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Beverley Farmer was born in Melbourne in 1941. After graduating from the University of Melbourne she worked in the restaurant trade and taught English and French in secondary schools. In 1965 she married a Greek migrant and they went to live, for …
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Bob Graham, Australia's leading picture-book maker, has written and illustrated many children's picture books including Oscar's Half Birthday, Buffy and Let's Get a Pup. He won the 2000 Smarties Gold Medal for Max, the 2003 Kate Greenaway Medal …
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Boori Monty Pryor is an indigenous Australian born in Townsville, North Queensland in 1950. His father is from the Birri-gubba Nation of the Bowen region and his mother's tribal group from Yarrabah, near Cairns, is the Kunggandji. Boori has worked in…
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