Barry Hill
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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Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley is also the author of Richard Wright: The Life and Times and most recently Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (translated into more than a dozen languages). She has been a Rockefeller Foundation Fellow, a fellow at …
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David Day
David Day has written widely on Australian history and the history of World War II. His biography of John Curtin won the 2000 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Prize for History and was shortlisted for the 2000 New South Wales Premier's Literary …
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Alison Lester
Alison Lester is one of Australia's most popular and bestselling creators of children's books. She has won many awards, including the 2005 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Picture Book of the Year Award for Are We There Yet? and the …
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Ian Abdulla
Ian Abdulla (1947–2011) was a Ngarrindjeri Australian Aboriginal artist, who was born in 1947 at Swan Reach on the Murray River, in the Riverland region of South Australia. Sometimes, described as one of Australia’s greatest native artists, …
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Ivan Southall
Ivan Southall was the first Australian author to receive the Carnergie Medal, and was awarded the Australian Children's Book Council Book of the Year on three occasions. An icon of Australian children's literature, he wrote over sixty books in his …
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Leigh Hobbs
Leigh Hobbs is an artist and author best known for his children’s book characters Old Tom, Horrible Harriet, Mr Chicken and Mr Badger. As well as being an author and illustrator Leigh works as an artist in a wide range of mediums. He has designed …
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Katrina Germein
Katrina Germein is a bestselling picture book author. Published worldwide, Katrina’s book, Big Rain Coming (illustrated by Bronwyn Bancroft), has remained continuously in print since it was first published in 1999. Her popular title, My Dad Thinks …
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Jenny Wagner
Jenny Wagner lives with her husband, their dog and three lazy cats in a small Queensland farmhouse that looks like a witch's cottage. The garden is full of possums, lizards, goannas, frogs, scrub turkeys and other birds. Sometimes a couple of …
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Sonya Hartnett
Sonya Hartnett was born on 23 March 1968 in Box Hill, Victoria. She is an Australian author of fiction for adults, young adults, and children who has published many novels to international acclaim. In 2008 Sonya was the recipient of the …
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