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Robert Adamson - The Golden Bird Robert Adamson was born in 1943 at Neutral Bay and raised in Sydney. His grandfather was a fisherman on the Hawkesbury River to the north of Sydney, where Adamson has lived, on and off, for most of hi... |
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Imran Ahmad was born in Pakistan, grew up in London and went to university in Scotland before embarking on a corporate career which took him all over the world, including five years in the United Stat... |
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Fiona Allon - Renovation Nation: Our Obsession with Home Fiona Allon is a writer and critic who specialises in the analysis of contemporary Australian culture and politics. She is a commentator on current affairs, social issues and popular culture and resea... |
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Felice Arena - Farticus Maximus and Other Stories that Stink! Felice Arena grew up in the small Victorian town of Kyabram and studied at La Trobe University in Bendigo. He graduated as a primary school teacher, but decided instead to pursue his love of acting an... |
Felice Arena: A Slug Story |
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Nadeem Aslam - The Wasted Vigil Born in Pakistan but raised in England, Nadeem Aslam is the author of three novels, including the highly acclaimed Season of the Rainbirds (1993). His second novel, Maps for Lost Lovers (2004), was lo... |
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Robert Baer - The Devil We Know: dealing with the new Iranian superpower Robert Baer is the author of two New York Times bestsellers. Sleeping with the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude targets the Saudi royal family and its relationship with the United S... |
The Middle East |
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Tristan Bancks - Coolhunter: I Heart NY Tristan Bancks is a writer and filmmaker whose award-winning short films have screened widely in festivals and on TV. He is also well known as an actor and television presenter in Australia and the UK... |
Fingers On The Pulse |
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Sebastian Barry - The Secret Scripture Sebastian Barry was was born in Dublin and educated at Trinity College where he edited Icarus. His academic posts have included Honorary Fellow in Writing at the University of Iowa (1984) and Writer F... |
Memory and History |
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AJ Betts grew up in Innisfail, Far North Queensland. She studied education in Brisbane, where she taught for a number of years before moving to the UK. After years of travelling overseas, she drove ac... |
Censorship in Young Adult Writing |
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Graeme Blundell - The Naked Truth: A Life in Parts As an actor, director, producer and writer, Graeme Blundell has been associated with many pivotal moments in Australian theatre, film and television. After working at the legendary Pram Factory and th... |
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David Brooks served as overseas editor for New Poetry from 1975 to 1980 while attending the University of Toronto. His first collection of poetry, The Cold Front (1983), was shortlisted for the NSW Pr... |
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James Campbell - Comedy 4 Kids Warm up your funny bones for the world’s only stand-up comedian for children. Think there is no such thing? Think again. James’ unique style covers everything from parents to Playstations;... |
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Jane Caro - The F Word: How we Learned to Swear by Feminism Jane Caro is an award-winning advertising writer of 25-years standing. She has achieved many firsts for women in advertising, including being the first and only female Chair of Judges for AWARD &ndash... |
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John Carroll - Ego & Soul: The Modern West in Search of Meaning John Carroll is Professor of Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Previous Titles The Western Dreaming Terror: a Mediation on the Meaning of September 11 The Wreck of Western Culture: ... |
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Sophie Cunningham worked in publishing for 15 years before turning full-time to writing and journalism. She is the editor of Meanjin, a magazine committed to the best new writing in Australia. Her fir... |
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Bridget Curran - The Miracles of Mary Bridget Curran is a young writer and filmmaker who holds a triple major in History, Italian and Anthropology (Hons). She has travelled and studied all over the world and is currently researching and w... |
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Amanda Curtin’s short fiction has been published in Island, Indigo, Southerly and Westerly. She has won the University of Canberra National Short Story Award, the Katharine Susannah Prichard Sho... |
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Mark Dapin has worked on almost every significant Australian men's magazine, from Penthouse to The Australian Financial Review Magazine. From 1988 to 2002 he was editor and then editor-in-chief of Ral... |
The Tales of Travellers |
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British-Indian writer Rana Dasgupta was born in Canterbury in 1971 and grew up in Cambridge. His first novel Tokyo Cancelled was published in 2005 to widespread acclaim and shortlisted for the John Ll... |
Stories of the World: An Evening of Readings |
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Mark Davis - The Land of Plenty Mark Davis is the author of Gangland: Cultural Elites and the New Generationalism. He teaches in the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. www.thelandofplenty.com.au Pr... |
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Robert Dessaix - Arabesques: A Tale of Double Lives Robert Dessaix was producer and presenter of ABC Radio National's Books and Writing from 1985 to 1995. Born in Sydney in 1944, he studied Russian Language and Literature at the Australian National Uni... |
Stories of the World: An Evening of Readings |
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Brian Dibble founded what is now Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University in 1972 and is presently Curtin's Emeritus Professor of Comparative Literature. He has published articles on El... |
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Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne and grew up on the West Australian coast. His first book of stories, The Bodysurfers, was published in 1983 and has become an Australian classic – regularly re... |
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Susan Duncan - The House at Salvation Creek For 25 years Susan Duncan was a leader in radio, newspaper and magazine journalism, including editing two of Australia's top-selling women's magazines, Australian Women’s Weekly and Woman’... |
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Monica Dux - The Great Feminist Denial Monica Dux is a freelance writer. She has worked on The Monthly magazine, at Melbourne University Publishing and taught history at Melbourne University, where she was the founding editor of ... |
A Revolution Half Won? |
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Stephan Faris is a freelance journalist who has written for such publications as Time and The Atlantic Monthly. He was raised in Tucson, Arizona and earned a masters degree from Columbia University&rs... |
Into the Firing Line |
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Mem Fox - Ten little Fingers and Ten little Toes Mem Fox was born in Australia, grew up in Africa, studied drama in England and returned to Adelaide in 1970 where she has lived happily ever after with husband Malcolm and daughter Chloë. She is ... |
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Benjamin Gilmour - Warrior Poets Benjamin Gilmour was born in 1975. Based in Sydney, he is an ambulance paramedic, filmmaker, freelance writer for magazines and newspapers and widely published poet. Recently, Benjamin established a n... |
Into the Firing Line |
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Libby Gleeson - Mahtab's Story Libby Gleeson AO has published over 20 books for children and teenagers, including Eleanor, Elizabeth, I Am Susannah, Dodger, Love Me, Love Me Not and the Hannah series. She has been shortlisted for t... |
Censorship in Young Adult Writing |
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Jane Gleeson-White - Australian Classics: 50 great writers and their celebrated works Jane Gleeson-White completed degrees at the University of Sydney in both Economics and English and Australian Literature. She worked as a student at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum in Venice where she stu... |
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Mark Greenwood - Simpson and His Donkey Mark Greenwood is an author with a passion for Australian history and folklore. The Legend of Moondyne Joe and The Legend of Lasseter's Reef both won the Western Australian Premier’s Award ... |
Mark Greenwood & Frane Lessac: Simpson and his Donkey |
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Kate Grenville - The Lieutenant Kate Grenville’s early works – which include Lilian's Story, Dark Places and Joan Makes History – have become modern classics and are admired by critics and readers around the world.... |
The First Fleet |
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Mamdouh Habib - My Story: the tale of a terrorist who wasn’t Mamdouh Habib is an Egyptian-born Australian Muslim best known for his extrajudicial detention in the Guantanamo Bay detainment camps on suspicion of being involved in terrorism. Born in 1955 in Egypt... |
The Tale Of A Terrorist Who Wasn't |
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Anna Haebich - Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950 – 1970 Anna Haebich’s multi-award-winning Broken Circles: Fragmenting Indigenous Families 1800-2000 was the first national text to chronicle Australia’s Stolen Generations. Anna’s career ha... |
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Clive Hamilton - The Freedom Paradox Clive Hamilton is an Australian author and public intellectual. In June 2008 he was appointed Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, a joint centre of the A... |
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Sonya Hartnett is the internationally acclaimed author of several novels, including Thursday's Child – winner of the 2002 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize – and Forest – winner of t... |
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Sarah Hay's first novel, Skins, won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 2001. She grew up in Esperance, Western Australia, and has worked in journalism and public relations. She now lives in Perth ... |
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During his remarkable career, David Hill has been chairman, then managing director of the ABC, chairman of the Australian Football Association, chief executive and director of the State Rail Authority... |
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Robert Hillman - The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Robert Hillman is a Melbourne-based writer of fiction and biography. His 2007 biography My Life as a Traitor (written with Zarha Ghahramani) will appear in numerous overseas editions this year and was... |
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Leigh Hobbs - Old Tom's Big Book of Beauty Leigh Hobbs was born in Melbourne, grew up in Bairnsdale and has lived and worked in Sydney, Sale and London. As well as being a writer and illustrator of children’s books, he is an artist who w... |
Worlds Apart? |
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Hannah Holmes - The Well-Dressed Ape: a natural history of myself Hannah Holmes is the author of Suburban Safari, The Secret Life of Dust and most recently The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself. Her writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, th... |
Literary Journalism |
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Sarah Jones - Red Dress Walking Sarah Jones is a compulsive reader and writer whose first novel, Red Dress Walking, pays homage to both pursuits. Her eclectic career includes stints as an academic, shadow ministerial staffer, manage... |
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Barry Jonsberg - A Croc Called Capone Barry Jonsberg was born in Liverpool, England, and now lives in Darwin with his wife, children and dogs Jai and Zac. Both hounds chewed over the original manuscript of The Dog that Dumped on My Doona ... |
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Cate Kennedy is a two-time winner of The Age Short Story Competition. Her short story collection Dark Roots was shortlisted for both the Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award and the Australian Literature... |
On Brevity |
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John Kinsella - Divine Comedy: Journeys through a Regional Geography John Kinsella is the author of more than 30 books. He has garnered many prizes and awards including The Grace Leven Poetry Prize, John Bray Award for Poetry, The Age Poetry Book of The Year, Western A... |
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Mark Kurlansky - The Last Fish Tale Mark Kurlansky is the author of Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World, The Basque History of the World, The White Man in the Tree and Salt: A World History. He lives in New York City wit... |
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Blaze Kwaymullina - Heartsick For Country: Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation Blaze Kwaymullina worked with Sally Morgan at the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at The University of Western Australia and co-edited Speaking from the Heart and Heartsick for Country. ... |
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Justine Larbalestier - How to Ditch your Fairy Justine Larbalestier was born and raised in Sydney. Having anthropologist parents meant that her childhood was punctuated by sojourns to other parts of Australia, including two small Aboriginal settle... |
Fingers On The Pulse |
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Julia Leigh’s debut novel The Hunter was a literary sensation in Australia and abroad. Named one of the 20 writers to watch in the 21st Century by the Observer (UK), she was co-winner of the 200... |
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Frané Lessac - Simpson and His Donkey Frané Lessac is an artist and author of international renown having exhibited in London, Paris, New York, Los Angeles and the Caribbean. Her numerous children's books have been translated into ... |
Mark Greenwood & Frane Lessac: Simpson and his Donkey |
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Chef Tracey Lister knows how to shop, cook and eat in Vietnam. After 15 years in the Melbourne restaurant scene, Tracey took a two-year sabbatical in Hanoi and was determined to put her extensive hosp... |
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Colette Livermore - Hope Endures Dr Colette Livermore joined Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity at age 17. After serving for 11 years, Colette went to medical school, obtained her medical degree from the University of Quee... |
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Joan London - The Good Parents Joan London is the author of two prize-winning collections of stories, Sister Ships – The Age Book of the Year in 1986 – and Letter to Constantine – winner of the Steele Rudd Award a... |
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Jayne Lyons was born and raised in the UK. She applied for a job in Perth while living in Aberdeen in 2004 and has lived here since January 2005. She writes every day and likes writing ... |
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Barry Maitland is the author of the acclaimed Brock and Kolla series of crime mystery novels set in London, the city he grew up in after his family moved from his birthplace, Paisley, Scotland. He stu... |
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Richard Mason - The Lighted Rooms Richard Mason was born in South Africa in 1978 to activist parents. Brought up in England, he became a brilliant student and sold his first novel at the remarkably young age of 19 while attending Oxfo... |
Richard Mason: Writing Fiction |
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John Maynard - Fight for Liberty and Freedom: The origins of Australian Aboriginal activism John Maynard is Professor of Indigenous Studies and Head of Wollotuka School of Aboriginal Studies at the University of Newcastle. He has received academic fellowships and awards for excellence throug... |
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Najaf Mazari - The Rugmaker of Mazar-E-Sharif Najaf Mazari was born in 1971 in a small village near Mazar-e-Sharif in northern Afghanistan. At the age of 12, he left school and apprenticed himself to a master rugmaker without his parents’ k... |
The Rugmaker of Mazar-e-Sharif |
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James McBride - The Song Yet Sung James McBride’s memoir The Color of Water is regarded as an American classic and is required reading in high schools and colleges across the United States. It spent more than two years on The Ne... |
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Meg McKinlay - Lightning Strikes: Going For Broke Meg McKinlay grew up in Bendigo, Victoria, in a book-loving household that was TV and car-free. A poet as well as a children's writer, she developed an affinity for the Japanese language after an exch... |
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Sullivan McLeod - Tunnel Vision Sullivan McLeod grew up with three brothers in Margaret River and still lives there (often in a tree house) when he’s not travelling. He performed around the world as a stand-up comedian for sev... |
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Michael Meehan grew up in the Mallee region of north-west Victoria. He studied Law at the University of Adelaide and Literature at Monash and Cambridge universities. He has taught in universities in v... |
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Tjalaminu Mia - Heartsick For Country: Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation Tjalaminu Mia is a Noongar woman with bloodline links to the Minang and Goreng peoples of the south-west of Western Australia. She works as a research fellow in Oral History and the Arts in the School... |
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Sally Morgan - Heartsick For Country: Stories of Love, Spirit and Creation Sally Morgan is well known as a visual artist and author of the Australian classic My Place. Her work as head of the Centre for Indigenous History and the Arts at The University of Western Australia h... |
Heartsick For Country |
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Yasmine Musharbash - Yuendumu Everyday Yasmine Musharbash has been working with the Warlpiri people in remote Aboriginal settlements in the Northern Territory since 1994. She spent three years sharing the lives of Warlpiri residents in t... |
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Alice Nelson is a Perth-born writer who has spent several years living and studying abroad. She studied Creative Writing at The University of Western Australia and in the renowned master’s progr... |
Friends, Lovers, Family |
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Andrew Nicoll - The Good Mayor Since a brief stint as a lumberjack, Andrew Nicoll has spent his working life as a newspaper journalist. He has published short stories in New Writing Scotland and other magazines and is the author of... |
Stepping Off The Page |
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Chris Pash was a pimply reporter at the Albany Advertiser in 1977 when Greenpeace activists launched their first direct action in Australia. He now lives in Sydney with his wife and two children and w... |
Chris Pash: Narrative Non-Fiction |
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Jenny Pattrick is a writer and jeweller who lives in Wellington, New Zealand. She has written fiction and commentary for radio and, with her musician husband, Laughton, songs and musical shows for chi... |
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Emily Perkins - Novel About My Wife Emily Perkins was born in 1970. She is the author of the novels Leave Before You Go and The New Girl, as well as Not Her Real Name, a collection of short stories which won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial ... |
Distinctive Voices |
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James Phelan is a Melbourne-based freelance writer who writes for a variety of publications including The Age. He holds a Master of Arts in Writing and is currently working on his PhD. He teaches in t... |
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After dabbling in journalism, German-born Andreas Pohl migrated to Australia and fell into a career in international education. He visited Vietnam for the first time in 1994 and numerous trips la... |
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Alice Pung - Growing up Asian in Australia Alice Pung is a Melbourne writer and lawyer. She was born in Footscray and grew up in Braybrook, attending local primary and secondary schools in the western suburbs. She has had stories and articl... |
Writing About Race |
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Stella Rimington joined the UK Security Service (MI5) in 1968. During her career she worked in all of the main fields of the Service, including counter-subversion, counter-espionage and counter-terror... |
Double Lives |
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Sally Rippin - Chenxi and the Foreigner Australian-born Sally Rippin grew up in many other countries including England, Brunei, Hong Kong and China. Her family moved roughly every two years because of her father's work. When Sally finished ... |
Censorship in Young Adult Writing |
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Roland Rocchiccioli - And Be Home Before Dark Roland Rocchiccioli has worked in the entertainment industry since 1966. He started out as the front end of Mavis the Dancing Horse in the pantomime Goldilocks and the Three Bears at the Circus. He ha... |
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Peter Rodgers - Arabian Plights: The Future Middle East Peter Rodgers is former Australian ambassador to Israel and a regular commentator on Middle Eastern affairs. As a journalist he won the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award for his re... |
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Tracy Ryan was born and lives in Western Australia but spent several years in Britain and the US. She has worked in libraries and done community journalism, editing, bookselling and teaching at variou... |
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Peter Singer - The Life You Can Save Peter Singer is Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He went to Princeton in 1999 after spending most of his life in Australia. Author or editor of over 25 books on ethics, Singer is best k... |
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Saša Stanišic - How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone Saša Stanišic was born in 1978 in Visegrad, Bosnia-Herzegovina, but was forced to flee to Heidelberg, Germany in 1992 to escape the civil war. He studied at the German Literature Institu... |
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Anne Summers became a journalist in 1975, working on the National Times before becoming Canberra bureau chief and eventually North American editor for The Australian Financial Review. That same year h... |
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Ian Townsend - The Devil's Eye Ian Townsend was born in country New South Wales but has spent much of the past 20 years in Queensland, including the past eight years in Brisbane. He has been a newspaper and radio journalist for mor... |
Researching the Past |
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Mark Tredinnick - The Little Green Grammar Book Poet, essayist and writing teacher Mark Tredinnick lives in Burradoo in the highlands south-west of Sydney. His books include The Little Red Writing Book (published in the US and the UK as Writing Wel... |
Poetica |
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Julienne van Loon - Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne van Loon is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Curtin University of Technology in Perth. She has more than ten years experience in teaching writing in a tertiary setting and has previou... |
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Alan Weisman - The World Without Us Journalist Alan Weisman is the author of five books and has reported from over 40 countries for major magazines and anthologies, including Best American Science Writing. His international bestsel... |
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Carole Wilkinson - Dragon Dawn Carole Wilkinson is the award-winning author of the DragonkeeperTrilogy, published in 14 countries. Dragon Moon, the third book in the trilogy, won the 2008 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers. ... |
Worlds Apart? |
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Roy Williams is one Australia's emerging public intellectuals. Since mid 2006 his book reviews have appeared regularly in The Australianand The Sydney Morning Herald and he has been a contributor to A... |
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James Woodford is a science and environment writer for The Sydney Morning Herald. In 1996 he won the Eureka Prize for Environmental Journalism and was awarded the prestigious Michael Daley Prize for S... |
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Susan Wyndham - Life In His Hands Susan Wyndham is the Literary Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald. A journalist for more than 20 years, she has been editor of Good Weekend, New York correspondent for The Australian. She has co... |
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Arnold Zable - Sea of Many Returns Arnold Zable is an award-winning writer, storyteller, educator and human rights advocate. Formerly a lecturer in the Arts faculty at Melbourne University, he has worked in the US, Papua New Guinea, Ch... |
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