Authors A-Z
Michel Faber is Dutch by birth but grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Boronia and Bayswater, arriving here in 1967. He majored in Old, Medieval and Modern English Literature at Melbourne University...
Albert Barnett Facey grew up on the goldfields of Coolgardie and outback Western Australia. Before he was two years old, his father died and his mother abandoned the four Facey children. Living with...
Delia Falconer's prize-winning short stories have appeared in many publications, including The Age, Australian Love Stories, Picador New Writing, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature...
Beverley Farmer was born in Windsor, Melbourne and educated at Carnegie State School, Gardiner Central School and MacRobertson Girls' High School. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree at the...
Ferguson was the second of seven children born to Scottish shearer and boundary rider, William Ferguson and his Aboriginal wife Emily, nee Ford. Ferguson worked in shearing sheds in the Riverina from...
Ross Fitzgerald was educated at Melbourne High School and Monash University and holds an MA from Case Western Reserve University and a doctorate from the University of New South Wales. Fitzgerald is...
Richard Flanagan was the fifth of six children. He was educated at state schools, leaving school at the age of sixteen to work as a labourer in the bush. He later returned to further his education at...
Brendan Fletcher has directed documentaries and feature length films. He has collaborated over a long period with Kimberley-based Indigenous roots-music band The Pigram Brothers.
Lionel Fogarty was born on Wakka Wakka land at Barambah, now known as Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve near Murgon, Queensland. His traditional background is the Yoogum and Kudjela tribes and he has...
Eddie Fong Ling-Ching joined Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) in 1979 as a senior script writer. His short film, The Painter won the Best Film Award in the Hong Kong Independent Short Film Festival...
John Forbes' father was a meterologist with the RAAF, and Forbes divided his childhood years between New Guinea, Malaya and Sydney. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Arts...
John Foster taught Children's Literature at the University of South Australia (and its predecessors) for over two decades and was also the director of the Centre for Children's Literature at the same...
Actor, playwright, director, academic. Richard Fotheringham grew up in country Queensland and received his university education at The University of Queensland. He has been active in Australian...
Mem Fox was born in Melbourne, but her father, grandfather, great- and great-great-grandfather were South Australian. Her parents sailed for Africa when she was seven months old, to serve as teachers...
Richard Frankland is one of Australia's most experienced Indigenous singer/songwriters and filmakers. Born on the coast in South-West Victoria, Richard worked as a soldier, fisherman, and also as a...
Miles Franklin was born in 1879 near Tumut, New South Wales. A fifth-generation Australian, Franklin grew up on grazing properties run by her family in the Monaro region. A decline in profits and the...
Jackie French was born in Sydney and grew up in Brisbane, completing her education at the University of Queensland. In her early twenties she moved to a property near Braidwood, New South Wales, and...
Anna Funder went to school in Melbourne and in Paris, and studied at the University of Melbourne and the Free University of Berlin. Fluent in both German and French, Anna Funder has written in her...
New South Wales-based Sandy Fussell studied mathematics at university and has worked as a computer programmer and a web designer. In addition to writing children's books, Fussell has also been a...
