Jack Davis (1917–1999) began writing when he was fourteen years old. The fourth child in a family of eleven, he spent his childhood in the West Australian mill town of Yarloop. He worked for several years as a stockman in the north before returning…
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Alan Seymour is best known in Australia for his play The One Day of the Year that explored the way ANZAC Day is commemorated. First produced in 1961, the play ignited passionate debate. The play was also produced in London, England, in 1961 and …
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Louis Nowra is a playwright, novelist, essayist and screenwriter. Some of his plays are Inner Voices, The Golden Age, Inside the Island, The Boyce Trilogy, Radiance and The Lewis Trilogy (Summer of the Aliens, Così, This Much is True). Screen …
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Barry Dickins is an award-winning Australian author, playwright and artist. From his beginnings drawing cartoons for the Age to his most recent book for Hardie Grant – Last Words – Barry has always shown an intense curiosity about people and what…
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David Williamson is one of Australia's best known and most widely performed playwrights and one of Australia's leading screenwriters. His dramas have been produced by all the major Australian theatre companies and have been translated into many …
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Alma De Groen was born in New Zealand in 1941 and moved to Australia at the age of twenty-four. De Groen is the author of many plays, of which The Rivers of China is probably the best known. It won the Premier's Literary Award for Drama in both New …
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Andrew Bovell is an award-winning writer for theatre, film and television. His AWGIE award-winning play Speaking in Tongues has been seen throughout Australia as well as in Europe and the US and Bovell adapted it for the screen as Lantana. Both the …
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Ray Lawler was thrust into prominence when his play Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, in which he appeared in the role of Barney, became a hit for the Union Theatre Repertory Company in 1955, and subsequently toured with enormous success throughout …
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Louis Esson (1879–1943), influenced by W. B. Yeats, pursued the idea of Australian folk drama on the model of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Esson met W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge while travelling, and both advised him, against his inclination, to …
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Drusilla Modjeska is possibly one of our most acclaimed writers. She was born in England but has lived in Australia since 1971. Her books include Exiles at Home, Banjo, NSW Premier's Award-winning Poppy, Sisters, which she co-edited, the Nita B.…
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