Authors by year of birth
Concon has worked in a tax office and a video shop. He is also an artist, and his art has been included in the Sulman Prize Exhibition at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He has lived in Australia.
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...
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...
Susanne Gervay was born in Australia of Hungarian parents. She has a BA from the University of Sydney, an MA in Creative Writing for the University of Technology, Sydney, and a Master of Education...
Jane Harrison was commissioned by Ilbijerri Theatre Company to write the play Stolen which was included in the VCE English and NSW HSC syllabi and awarded the Kate Challis RAKA Award in 2002. Since,...
Vrasidas Karalis received a PhD from the University of Athens, and he has served as Associate Professor and Head of Department in the University of Sydney's Department of Modern Greek.
A Sydney based author, Margo Lanagan grew up in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, and in Melbourne, Victoria. She holds a degree in history from the University of Sydney and has worked in a variety...
The daughter of Merv Lilley and Dorothy Hewett (qq.v.), Kate Lilley published her first poem at the age of fifteen. She grew up in Perth, and, when her mother was offered a writing grant, the family...
Tracey Moffatt studied visual communications at the Queensland College of Art and graduated in 1982. The second eldest from a family of five, Tracey and three of her siblings were fostered by a non-...
From an early age Kirsty Murray loved listening to all types of stories in the school yard and elsewhere. Her father, the sculptor Guy Boyd was a natural storyteller and her mother, Phyllis, was a...
Narelle Oliver grew up in Toowoomba, Queensland, in a family that keenly pursued the visual arts, especially photography, drawing and painting. Her mother was an artist and her father a photographer....
Ioana Petrescu studied for her BA (Hons) at the University of Cluj, Romania. In 1983, as an undergraduate, she had a three-month scholarship to take a course in German linguistics at Humboldt...
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...
Jordie Albiston is an award winning Melbourne-based poet. She studied flute at the Victorian College of the Arts and published her first collection of poetry in 1995. Albiston graduated with a PhD in...
Tony Ayres grew up in Western Australia. In addition to his prose writing and editing, he has extensive credits as a screen-writer and director. He wrote, directed and narrated China Dolls, an award-...
Anson Cameron grew up in Victoria, in Shepparton and Geelong. For some time, he worked at an iron mine in the Pilbara.
Born in Sydney, Rod Clement spent several years of his childhood in Papua New Guinea, an experience which led to his love of nature. This enabled him to portray images of animals with a precision and...
Craig Cormick spent his early years in Wollongong before moving with his family to Queensland, the Blue Mountains in New South Wales and Canberra in the Australian Capital Territory....
Ursula Dubosarsky was born into a family of writers in Sydney in 1961, studied several languages at Sydney University and after graduating in 1982, taught French for a while to primary school...
Greg Egan is a science fiction author who has a degree in mathematics. He previously worked as a computer programmer, but began to write full-time in 1992. His short stories and novels have been...
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...
Hawkes' early education was undertaken in Catholic schools where she developed an attachment to Coleridge, Yeats and Shakespeare. In 2008 she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Gender...
Judy Johnson lives in Newcastle and teaches creative writing. (2002)
'Mark grew up in Green Valley near Liverpool, attending Ashcroft Public School and Hurlstone Agricultural High School. He completed a Bachelor of Economics degree (Honours) at Sydney University in...
Simone Lazaroo emigrated to Perth with her family at age two. In 1983 she completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the then Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University). For...
Lauren Marsh grew up in Perth and has an interest in women's history.
David Spillman has conducted Indigenous Leadership Development programs for the Northern Territory Government and currently (2009) works for Imagine Consulting Group International.
Alana Valentine has written numerous nominated and award-winning radio plays as well as episodes of the television series McLeod's Daughters and Fat Tuesday. She has written several short films...
Dramatist, writer, critic
The winner of numerous awards during his career, Andrew Bovell has utilised a variety of styles and contexts, as well as performance venues, since he began writing...
Brisbane-born Matthew Condon has lived in Australia, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. He was educated at the University of Queensland and undertook further studies at the Goethe Institute,...
In addition to writing poetry, fiction and filmscripts, Luke Davies has worked as a teacher, truck driver, journalist and script editor. In 2009, Davies won the John Curtin Prize for Journalism in...
Tom Gleisner is an Australian director, producer, writer, comedian, actor and author. Tom is a co-founder of Working Dog Productions (with Santo Cilauro, Jane Kennedy and Rob Sitch), and along with...
Born in Brisbane, P.J. Hogan lived on the New South Wales north coast as a teenager, attending Mount Saint Patrick College in Murwillumbah, New South Wales. In 1984, he graduated from the Australian...
Christopher Lee has lectured in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Southern Queensland and has published in the field of nineteenth century Australian literature....
Director, producer, writer, actor.
Raised as a child in the small rural New South Wales township of Herons Creek, Baz Luhrmann moved to Sydney at age 15 to live with his mother. His...
