Authors A-Z
Wagner arrived in Australia when she was nine years old. Her studies at Melbourne University included German, Dutch, Swedish and philosophy. Her books are informed by both her studies and the...
Dramatist, librettist, journalist.
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The most popular, and arguably the most successful, writer for the Australian stage during the 1870s and 1880s, Garnet Walch's...
Brenda Walker studied at the University of New England and completed a doctorate on the work of Samuel Beckett at the Australian National University. Since 1984, she has taught at the University of...
James Walter has been professor of politics at Monash University, Melbourne.
Judah Waten was born in Odessa, but soon after his birth he was taken to Palestine. The family emigrated from Czarist Russia along with many other Jewish families to escape the pogroms there earlier...
Samuel Wagan Watson has Irish, German and Aboriginal (Bundjalung and Birri Gubba) ancestory.
An award winning poet who has won many state and national awards for his poetry and prose,...
Sarah Watt was an award winning film director, producer, and animator. She received a Masters degree from the Swinburne University of Technology.
In 1995, Watt's short film, Small...
Walker Norris may have been Dransfield's dealer for one weekend of Hey Jude and McArthur Park but his biggest moment occurred when Allen Ginsberg proclaimed at an Adelaide Writer's "Walker Norris IS...
Rachael Weaver holds a MA and PhD from the University of Melbourne, where she is currently a Research Fellow within the School of Culture and Communication. Her areas of interest include colonial...
Francis Webb was born in Adelaide, but after the death of his mother in 1927, he was raised by his paternal grandparents in Sydney. He attended Catholic schools, completing his high school education...
Professor Elizabeth Webby is a respected scholar, holding the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Sydney until 2007. She is an expert in nineteenth-century Australian literature and...
Award-winning film director.
Born in Sydney, Weir attended The Scots College and Vaucluse Boys' High School, then undertook an Arts/Law degree at the University of Sydney, where his fellow students...
Scott Westerfeld is a Texan-born science fiction writer who divides his time between New York City and Sydney. He graduated with a Vassar Philosophy BA in 1985 and undertook graduate work in...
Steve Westh is the director of numerous films and videos.
Nadia Wheatley grew up in Strathfield and in 1966 began an Arts Degree at The University of Sydney, with the intention of majoring in English, but switched to History, graduating with Honours in 1970...
Patrick White is the first Australian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature (1973). He was born into a wealthy Australian grazing family with strong ties to England, and received his...
Petra White comes from English, Scottish and Irish ancestry and is the eldest of six children. She has been interested in writing since early childhood and began writing in earnest (attempting a...
Gillian Whitlock is a graduate of The University of Queensland, where she completed theses on A. G. Stephens and Doris Lessing, and Queen's University, Canada, where she completed a PhD thesis on the...
Margaret Wild was born in Eshowe, a country town in South Africa. Her father was a bank manager and Wild's early life was spent frequently moving around; however, she spent a lot of time in...
Wild and Woolley was established by Michael Wilding and Pat Woolley (qq.v.) in 1974 as a 'risk-taking publishing house'. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company grew substantially and developed its own...
Wilkinson emigrated to Australia at the age of 12 with her family and settled in Port Adelaide. After working for many years in laboratory settings, Wilkinson turned to writing at the age of forty....
Lyn Wilkinson is currently (2011) a senior lecturer at Fliders University, with expertise in English curriculum.
David Williamson was brought up in Bentleigh, Melbourne, until the family moved to Bairnsdale, Victoria in 1954. He was educated at the Bairnsdale high school but moved to Melbourne for his last year...
Wilyuka is a Luritja woman from Titjikala, a small community south of Alice Springs where she has lived all her life.
Tara June Winch grew up on the south coast of New South Wales. She is currently (2007) undertaking a BA, living on the coast with her daughter, Lila, and working on her second novel. Also in 2007 the...
Born in Karrinyup, Western Australia, Tim Winton completed his high school education at Albany. Determined to be a writer from an early age, Winton subsequently studied creative writing at the West...
Eleanor Witcombe's mother Bertha ('Sissy') Erichsen, was the daughter of Danish and Prussian immigrants, and her father, Noel Witcombe, was the eldest son of the Reverend William Witcombe of Sydney....
The Australian Film Commission (AFC) launched the Indigenous Branch (originally known as the Aboriginal Unit) in 1993 to promote the participation of Indigenous Australians in the film and television...
Chris Womersley's fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Granta New Writing 14, Best Australian Stories 2006, the Monthly and the Age.
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Wood grew up in the town of Cooma, NSW, in a large family. After completing a cadetship on the local newspaper, she went to Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, NSW, where she studied journalism and...
Sue Woolfe grew up in the Blue Mountains and was educated at the universities of Sydney and New England. She has worked as a teacher, scriptwriter, editor and documentary film-maker.
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Gus Worby was born in Stockport, England in 1946. He migrated to Australia with his family in 1954 and settled in Geelong where he attended Geelong Grammar School.He studied Arts at Melbourne...
Alexis Wright is from the Waanji people from the highlands of the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. She has worked extensively in government departments and Aboriginal agencies across four states and...
Judith Wright, a fifth generation Australian, was born at Thalgarrah Station, near Armidale, New South Wales. Her ancestors arrived in Australia during the 1820s and 1830s and established several...
Author and freelance magazine feature writer, Larry Writer co-authored Newk (2002), John Newcombe's autobiography, and Chrissy Amphlett's memoir, Pleasure and Pain (2005). He also wrote Razor (2001...
