Sydney
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...
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...
Stuart Beattie has written screenplays for feature movies including Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean : Curse of the Black Pearl.
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...
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...
Moya Costello grew up in Sydney, and graduated with BA from the University of Sydney, 1973 and Dip Ed Sydney Teacher's College, 1973. She gained a Grad. Dip. Media Studies at the Victoria State...
John Dale gained a PhD in Creative Arts (and the Chancellor's Award) from the University of Western Sydney before joining the Centre for New Writing at the same institution. Dale's research interests...
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...
Robert Dessaix was born in Sydney and adopted at an early age. His interest in Russian literature led him to study in Moscow during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Upon gaining his PhD, Dessaix...
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...
Elliott directed and adapted, with Sheridan Jobbins (q.v.), the screenplay for the British film Easy Virture (2008) based on the play by British writer Noel Coward.
Delia Falconer's prize-winning short stories have appeared in many publications, including The Age, Australian Love Stories, Picador New Writing, the Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature...
