Authors by year of birth
David Phu An Chiem was born in Vietnam of Chinese descent and in 1978 arrived in Australia with his family as refugees. He began his acting career as a teenager with the lead role in the television...
Wilyuka is a Luritja woman from Titjikala, a small community south of Alice Springs where she has lived all her life.
Stuart Beattie has written screenplays for feature movies including Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean : Curse of the Black Pearl.
Deborah Gare lectures in history at the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle. She has previously been a Research Associate at Curtin University, a Visiting Scholar at the University of...
Kate Holden graduated in classics and literature from university.
While a heroin addict she began working as a prostitute in the Melbourne suburb of St Kilda. Holden continued as a sex...
Deborah Mailman grew up in Mount Isa. She spent many of her childhood years around the rodeo because her father was a rodeo champion.
Mailman gained interest in acting during high school when she...
Screenwriter, director, cinematographer.
An Indigenous Australian filmmaker who grew up in the New South Wales country towns of Tamworth and Inverell, Ivan Sen is a descendant of the...
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,...
Chloe Hooper grew up in Melbourne. In 1995 she completed an Arts degree at Melbourne University with first class Honours in English and Fine Arts. She has held a solo exhibition of her paintings and...
Writer and musician Stefan Laszczuk grew up in Adelaide and has also lived in Melbourne. He studied creative writing at the University of Adelaide under Thomas Shapcott (q.v.) and has undertaken...
Tom Cho graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree (Professional Writing) from Deakin University in 1995. He has worked in the fields of writing and publishing, including jobs as a technical writer,...
Oscar Redding (born 1974) grew up in the Wee Jasper valley near the foothills of the Brindabella Ranges and received his earliest education at the tiny Wee Jasper school in the village of Wee Jasper...
Shaun Tan, the son of a Malaysian-Chinese father and an Anglo-Irish mother, is a multi-award winning artist and writer who currently lives and works in Melbourne [2007]. As a child growing up in...
Chris Lilley 'began as a stand-up comedian in Sydney. It was here that he developed his skills as a character writer and performer. Chris joined the cast of the Seven Network sketch comedy series...
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...
Markus Zusak began writing fiction at high school when he was sixteen years of age and finished his first manuscript when he was eighteen. Zusak studied teacher education at university and has worked...
Suneeta Peres da Costa received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication, graduating with First Class Honours and the University Medal, from the University of Technology, Sydney (1998). In 2001 she...
Jared Thomas is an Indigenous author, playwright, poet, and academic. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing, and a Masters in Creative Writing from Adelaide University....
Emma Jones undertook her secondary education at MLC Burwood in Sydney, New South Wales. After working in England for one year, she returned to Australia and completed an arts degree at the University...
Berry's involvement with the underground writing scene in Australia began in 1997. A Sydney writer, she has self-published a wide variety of zines [ie a small circulation of original or appropriated...
Angela Betzien graduated from the Queensland University of Technology with a Bachelor of Arts in Drama in 1998. She has won several awards for her playwriting. She won the Queensland Theatre Company...
Abdel-Fatteh grew up in Melbourne where she attended a Roman Catholic primary school and the King Khalid Islamic College. She then studied arts/law at the University of Melbourne and worked as a...
Nam Le was born in Vietnam and raised in Melbourne, Australia. After training as a lawyer, Nam Le continued his studies at the Iowa Writers' Workshop and later took up fellowships at Provincetown,...
Shirm received the D. J. O’Hearn Memorial Fellowship for Emergent Writers in 2009. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Sydney and her fiction has appeared in literary...
Zarah Ghahramani was gaoled in Tehran for twenty-nine days for campaigning for women's rights. A chance meeting, after her release, with Australian author Robert Hillman (q.v.) eventually led to her...
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...
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...
