Anna Funder’s novel All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Prize, along with many others. Anna’s non-fiction book Stasiland, hailed as ‘a classic’, won the 2004 Samuel Johnson Prize. Both books were finalists for many international awards including the Guardian First Book Prize, the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize. They […]

Sophie Cunningham is the author of five books, City of Trees, Geography, Bird, Melbourne, and Warning: The Story of Cyclone Tracy. She is a former publisher and editor, was a co-founder of the Stella Prize and is now an Adjunct Professor at RMIT University’s Non/fiction Lab. In 2019 Sophie Cunningham was made a Member of […]

Michael Ackland was educated at Melbourne Grammar School, Monash University, Cologne University and the Australian National University, and taught for many years at Monash University. He has also taught and lectured widely in Europe and North America. He is fluent in French and German. His recent temporary positions included Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and […]

Anna Clark is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Australian Centre for Public History at the University of Technology Sydney. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote the History Wars in 2003, which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Prize for Australian History and the Queensland Premier’s Prize for Best Literary or Media Work Advancing Public […]

Bruce Beresford is an Australian film and stage director, screenwriter, and producer who specialises in small-budget character-driven dramas. After studying in Sydney, Beresford went to London, where he helped produce documentaries for the British Film Institute (1966–71). Back in Australia, he directed three films before his widely acclaimed Breaker Morant (1980), which helped establish the […]

Poet and artist Richard Tipping has three degrees including a doctorate from the University of Technology Sydney (2007). He is a widely-published poet and makes artworks which incorporate his own poetic texts – such as in engraved stone sculpture, in original and altered sign designs, and with visual poetry graphics on paper. He worked as […]

Gabrielle Carey started writing as a teenager and published her first co-written book, Puberty Blues, in 1979. She has since written, In My Father’s House, a biography of her father, Waiting Room, a memoir of her mother, and a book of personal essays, So Many Selves. Her most recent book, Moving Among Strangers, is an […]

Suzanne Falkiner is a Sydney writer. Author of twelve previous books of fiction and nonfiction, her most recent books include The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson & Australia, UWAP 2011 and Mrs Mort’s Madness, Xoum 2014. She has been a shortlisted in the Vogel Award, the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award, and the NSW History Awards.  […]

Alice Nelson was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists for her first novel, The Last Sky, which also won the TAG Hungerford Award and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Barbara Jefferis Award. She is also the author of the recently-released After This: Survivors of the Holocaust […]