Literature
Alice Pung’s first novel, Unpolished Gem, has received much critical acclaim in Australia and was the winner of the Australian Newcomer of the Year prize in the 2007 Australian Book Industry Awards.
Andrew McGahan’s first novel, Praise,won the Australian/Vogel Award and went on to become a cult bestseller and the basis of a feature film.
Andy Griffiths is an internationally successful, award-winning children’s author. He has written fifteen books ranging from nonsense verse and short stories to comic novels.
Anna Funder is the author of the acclaimed book, Stasiland, which is an investigation of East Germany’s feared secret police. Fluent in both German and French, Funder writes of her experiences in Berlin, both before and after the Wall came down.
Arabella Edge’s first novel, The Company, was based on the shipwreck of the Dutch ship the Batavia in 1629.
Brenda Walker is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Western Australia where she has worked since 1984.
Carrie Tiffany’s first novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, won the Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer at the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Catherine Jinks is an award-winning Australian author who writes for children, young adults and adults.
David Malouf is an award-winning Australian writer whose book Remembering Babylon was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1993.
Fiona Capp is a fine new voice in Australian fiction - and an ex-surfer, who has a deep connection to the coastline about which she writes.
Frank Moorhouse has written twelve books of fiction and one non-fiction book. He has won a number of literary prizes including the 1989 Australian Literature Society’s Gold Medal.
Garry Disher has written over 40 books, many of which have been translated. His works include literary fiction, crime and children’s/young adult novels and story collections, history texts, anthologies and writers’ handbooks.
Garth Nix is an Australian writer of young adult fantasy whose novels have sold in excess of 4 million copies internationally.
Graham Pitts is a writer, researcher and playwright, who has created scores of arts-based projects with marginalised groups from many cultures, particularly with non-English speaking background and disadvantaged communities, and people living with HIV/AIDS.
IAD Press is Australia’s oldest Indigenous publishing house. They are dedicated to publishing and promoting the voices and languages of Australia’s First people.
James Bradley is the award-winning author of three novels and a book of poetry. He has also edited a collection of stories by young Australian writers.
Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian writer who currently lives in the USA. Her work includes Orpheus Lost (2007), Due Preparations for the Plague (2003), Oyster (1996), The Last Magician (1992); Isobars (1991), Charades (1988), Dislocations (1987), Borderline (1987) and The Ivory Swing (1983).
Kate Jennings was born in New South Wales. She was active in leftist and feminist politics of the sixties, going on to become a poet, critic, and essayist.
First-time author Kate Morton’s novel The Shifting Fog (Allen and Unwin, 2006) has been phenomenally successful, and has already been translated into 12 languages.
Kim Scott is a descendant of the Noongar people from the south-east coast of Western Australia. He has written two novels and a children's book, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies.
A Yugambeh man, born on Wakka Wakka land at Barambah, Lionel Fogarty is celebrated Indigenous writer who has been actively involved in Aboriginal politics through various organisations including the Aboriginal Legal Service, Aboriginal Housing Services and Murrie Coo-ee.
Sydney-based Luke Davies is a poet and novelist, whose work has been widely published both in Australia and overseas.
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Markus Zusak is the author of The Underdog, Fighting Ruben Wolfe and The Messenger which was published in Australia and the US where it won the prestigious Printz Honor Book for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Melina Marchetta’s Looking for Alibrandi was published in 1992 and is a story of a third generation Italian-Australian schoolgirl who experiences love, death and the secrets of her family's past.
Michelle de Kretser is an award-winning novelist of international acclaim. She was born in Sri Lanka and emigrated to Australia when she was 14.
MJ Hyland has published short stories in Australia, Ireland and the USA. Her latest novel, Carry Me Down, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2006.
Nicholas Jose was born in the United Kingdom, but spent his childhood in Broken Hill, Traralgon, Perth and Adelaide. He has published short stories, novels and a book on English literature which originated as his doctoral thesis.
Born in South Australia, Peter Goldsworthy has won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the South Australian Bicentennial Award and an Australian Bicentennial Literary Award.
Peter Temple is Australia's most acclaimed crime and thriller writer. He has won the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction five times and has a legion of fans around the world.
Robert Dessaix is an insightful observer of characters, places and cultures, and he is known for interweaving these elements in beautifully crafted prose.
Roger McDonald is the author of the novels 1915, Slipstream, Water Man, Rough Wallaby, The Slap and Mr Darwin's Shooter.
Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award winning children's books including The Lost Thing (2000) and The Red Tree (2001).
One of Australia's most successful modern authors, Thomas Keneally has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize on four occasions.
Tim Flannery was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and has published widely in scientific and cultural fields
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