Authors by year of birth
One of the vanguard filmmakers of the Australian film renaissance of the 1970s, several of his early career productions are considered to be among the most influential and successful films of that...
Carmel Bird was born and educated in Tasmania, taking a BA before embarking on a twenty year teaching career in 1961.
Bird published her first collection of short stories in 1983 and has...
J. M. Coetzee was born in South Africa of Boer and English descent. In the 1960s he moved to England working as a computer programmer before studying literature in the United States. He was awarded a...
Historian Graeme Davison has taught at the University of Melbourne, Harvard University (Visiting Professor of Australian Studies) and Monash University, and has been an Adjunct Professor at the...
Screenwriter, producer, director.
A former journalist and Sydney Morning Herald newspaper police reporter, John Dingwall utilised his experiences by writing episodes for Crawford Production...
Chinese dissident novelist and playwright, living in France.
Jack Hibberd was born near Bendigo, Victoria, and studied Medicine at the University of Melbourne. While practising as a doctor, Hibberd wrote poetry and plays, and White With Wire Wheels was...
Bob Hodge teaches Humanities at the University of Western Sydney. Prior to that he studied at the Universities of Western Australia and Cambridge. He has also taught at Murdoch University.
Poetry anthologist and editor John Leonard grew up in Melbourne and has lived in Ontario, London and, from 1988-2000, in the rainforest of Far North Queensland. In 2003, he was living in Melbourne....
Geoff Page is the son of Donald and Helen Page; the family's connection with the Clarence River district goes back to the mid nineteenth century. Page's grandfather, Sir Earle Page (q.v), founded the...
Established in 2002 to 'promote the reading, writing, reviewing and appreciation of poetry in all its forms.'
In 2006 the Foundation anounced the support of the Australian copyright...
Murray Bail was born and educated in Adelaide. In 1968 he travelled to India where he lived until 1970. He then moved to England and Europe for four years, writing for the Transatlantic Review and...
Of Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri heritage, Veronica Brodie grew up on the Aboriginal Mission at Raukkan (formerly Point McLeay). Her autobiography, My Side of the Bridge, tells of her childhood at Raukkan...
Alma De Groen, daughter of Archibald Mathers and Eileen Vertongen, was born in New Zealand and educated at Mangakino District High School. She moved to Australia in 1964 and married in 1965. (She was...
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...
Pat Lowe taught in France and East Africa before studying psychology at Liverpool University. She migrated to Australia in 1972, gained a Master's degree from the University of Western Australia,...
Barry Maitland was born in Scotland and grew up in London. After studying architecture at Cambridge, Maitland practised and taught in the UK before moving to Australia, where he became a Professor of...
In 1981 Rosa R. Cappiello published Paese Fortunato: Romanzo; written in Italian, the semi-autobiographical novel was based on her experience as a migrant factory worker. Following her arrival in...
Script-writer, playwright, speech writer, journalist, and political commentator.
Bob Ellis's work as a script-writer began in the early 1970s, at the same time as he was beginning to make a name for...
Helen Garner was born in Geelong, Victoria in 1942, and grew up there with five younger siblings. She studied Arts at the University of Melbourne, graduating with Honours in English and French in...
Anthony Hill was born in Melbourne in 1942. He became a newspaper journalist before moving with his family to a small country town in New South Wales where they ran an antiques shop. This experience...
Janette Turner Hospital left Melbourne in 1950 when her family moved to Brisbane. Here she was educated at state schools and the University of Queensland, completing a Bachelor of Arts in 1965. She...
Rubinstein was an early and avid reader, and it was the wish to write for her own children that launched her successful career as a writer for children and young adults. During her teens her parents...
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...
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...
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...
Robert Adamson was born in Sydney, but often visited the Hawkesbury River district where his grandfather was a fisherman. Adamson spent much of his early life in corrective institutions, but it was...
Peter Carey was born in 1943 at Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. He was educated locally and at Geelong Grammar School before beginning a science degree at Monash University, Melbourne, in 1961. After a...
Robert Duncan Drewe grew up in Perth. He worked as a journalist for the West Australian in 1961, was Columnist and Literary Editor at the Australian from 1970-1974, and Bureau Chief at the Age from...
In 1986, Paul Jennings wrote a story in the Age newspaper titled 'Goodbye, My Son' under the pseudonym 'Peter Wilson'. The story related to Jennings' adopted Aboriginal son, Andrew.Paul Jennings was...
Philip McLaren was born in Redfern although his family comes from the Warrumbungle Mountain area, New South Wales and he is a descendant of the Kamilaroi people. McLaren has worked as a television...
John Tranter was born in Cooma, New South Wales, but moved with his family to Moruya, on the south coast of New South Wales, when he was four. After attending local schools and working in his father'...
