Elizabeth Jolley

Elizabeth Jolley

female, deceased (2007)
Australian women writer, Order of Australia, Women writer, English, Short story writer, australianliterature…English Australian, Australian
Elizabeth Jolley, AO (4 June, 1923 - 13 February, 2007) was an English-born multi-award-winning author notable in Australian literature for her...
Xavier Herbert

Xavier Herbert

male, deceased (1984)
novelist, Capricornia, Disturbing Element, Poor Fellow My Country, Miles Franklin Award, Geraldton, Western Australia…australianliterature, Australian
Xavier Herbert was an Australian writer best known for his Miles Franklin Award-winning book "Poor Fellow My Country" (1975), and could be...
James McAuley

James McAuley

male, deceased (1976)
Irish Australian, catholicism, Roman Catholic, poet, new guinea, Anglican…Australian, australianliterature, Australian Army
Dr James Phillip McAuley was an Australian academic, poet, journalist, literary critic, and prominent convert to Catholicism. McAuley was born in...

David Brooks

male, 56 years old
poet, Royal Military College, Duntroon, Australian National University, University of Sydney, University of Western Australia, author…australianliterature, Australian
David Brooks was born in Canberra, Australia in 1953. He graduated from the Australian National University in 1974. Brooks then studied abroad in...

David Brooks

male, 56 years old
poet, Australian, canberra, australianliterature, University of Sydney
David Brooks (born 1953) is an Australian poet. He was born in Canberra. He now lectures in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney.
Peter Skrzynecki

Peter Skrzynecki

male, 64 years old
Grace Leven Prize for Poetry, Captain Cook Bicentenary Poetry Prize, Henry Lawson Short Story Award, Grace Leven Poetry Prize, Order of Cultural Merit, literature of Australia…Australian, australianliterature, multicultural literature
Peter Skrzynecki IPA: /s:kɹeɪzɪˑnɛˑkɪ/ (Often Misspelled "Sheneski") (born April 6, 1945 in Germany) is an Australian poet of Polish/...
James Bradley

James Bradley

male, 42 years old
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, australianliterature, Wrack, Courier-Mai, Mahogany Ship, The Deep Field…Australian novelist, Australian, Australian writer
James Bradley (born 1967) is an Australian novelist and critic. Born in Adelaide, South Australia, he trained as a lawyer before becoming a writer....
Dymphna Cusack

Dymphna Cusack

female, deceased (1981)
Australian women writer, Sydney University, Playwright, Biographer, Australian, australianliterature…Australian Society of Author, Australian Broadcasting Commission
Dymphna Cusack (September 21, 1902 - October 19, 1981) was an Australian author. Born in West Wyalong, New South Wales, Dymphna Cusack graduated...
Dorothea MacKellar

Dorothea MacKellar

female, deceased (1968)
federal electorate, Australian women writer, Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, anzac, Division of Mackellar, Charles Kinnaird Mackellar…Australian, australianliterature
Isobel Marion Dorothea Mackellar OBE, (July 1 1885-January 14 1968), was an Australian poet and fiction writer. The only daughter of noted...
Edward Dyson

Edward Dyson

male, deceased (1931)
poet, novelist, ballarat, Australian, australianliterature, The Bulletin
Edward George Dyson (1865-1931), was born at Morrisons near Ballarat in March 1865. His father, George Dyson, arrived in Australia in 1852 and...