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 …
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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…
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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 …
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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 …
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Jennifer Strauss
Jennifer Strauss is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at Monash University and is a respected critic, literary historian and poet…
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Rosemary Dobson
Rosemary Dobson was born in 1920, her first book, In a Convex Mirror, was published in 1944. Forty years and nine books later, she received the 1984 Patrick White Award for her many achievements as writer, editor, reviewer and translator. She was …
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Robert Adamson
Robert Adamson was born in Sydney in 1943 and grew up in Neutral Bay and on the Hawkesbury River, New South Wales. From 1970 to 1985 he edited Australia’s New Poetry magazine, and in 1988, with Juno Gemes, he established Paper Bark Press, one of …
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Gwen Harwood
Gwen Harwood (1920–1995), one of the most celebrated voices in modern Australian poetry, was born in 1920 in Brisbane, where she trained as a pianist and organist. After her marriage in 1945 she moved to Hobart, where she lived until her death in …
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Alison Hoddinott
Alison Hoddinott was born in Hobart in 1931, and studied at the University of Tasmania and Oxford University. Her publications include Gwen Harwood: The Real and the Imagined World (A&R, 1991). She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the School of…
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Gregory Kratzmann
Gregory Kratzmann was born in Toowoomba and undertook his tertiary education at the University of Queensland, the Australian National University and Edinburgh University. He edited A Steady Storm of Correspondence: Selected Letters of Gwen Harwood …
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