New South Wales
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...
Glenda Adams was born and educated in Sydney. She studied Indonesian and other languages at the University of Sydney and spent some time in Indonesia on a small scholarship before returning to Sydney...
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...
Marjorie Barnard was born and educated in Sydney, graduating from the University of Sydney in 1920 with first-class honours in history. While at university, she met Flora Eldershaw, with whom she...
Barbara Baynton was the seventh child of Elizabeth (nee Ewart) and John Lawrence. Her claim that she was illegitimate had its origins in the long de facto relationship her mother had with Robert...
Stuart Beattie has written screenplays for feature movies including Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean : Curse of the Black Pearl.
Academic, lawyer and writer, Larissa Behrendt graduated from Harvard Law School with a doctorate in 1998. Her thesis was later published as the book Achieving Social Justice : Indigenous Rights and...
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...
Anne Brewster completed Honours English at the University of Adelaide and a PhD on post-colonial literatures of South-East Asia at Flinders University. She taught at the South Australian Institute of...
Growing up in the Western suburbs of Sydney, Geraldine Brooks established pen pals across the world (an experience that contributed to her memoir Foreign Correspondence). Following her secondary...
Burke trained as a nurse, and worked for several years in London and Sydney. In 1999, while recovering from glandular fever, she did a creative writing course. Another writing course followed, and...
Alex Buzo was born in Sydney. He was educated at The Armidale School, the International School in Geneva and the University of New South Wales from which he graduated BA in 1965. Buzo saw his first...
David Caesar grew up on his grandparents farm at Turlinjah in the Moruya district of southern New South Wales and began making animated Super-8 films while still at school.
After finishing...
Ken Cameron is a well known film and television director.
David Campbell was born at Ellerslie station, near Adelong, New South Wales. He was educated at home, at a preparatory school and at The King's School in Sydney before entering Jesus College,...
Marion Campbell holds degrees from the universities of Western Australia and Provence. She has worked as a Tutor in French, and in Writing and Literature at Murdoch University. Currently she is a...
Gabrielle Carey left school at the age of fifteen and first became known as a writer at the age of twenty when she and her friend Kathy Lette published the controversial Puberty Blues, based on their...
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...
