Authors from Australia

Peter O'Brien

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Peter O'Brien (born 25 March 1960) is an Australian actor. O'Brien was born at Murray Bridge, South Australia. Peter started off as a teacher at Mercedes College, a private Catholic College...

Nerida Newton

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Nerida Newton is an Australian novelist who first came to light in 2002 with her first novel, The Lambing Flat, which won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's...

Thea Astley

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Thea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had...

Margaret Way

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Margaret Way (b. August 7 in Brisbane, Australia) is an Australian writer, and she is one of Mills & Boon's most prolific authors with more than 110 novels. Margaret Way was born August 7 in...

David Malouf

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David George Joseph Malouf is an acclaimed Australian writer. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000, and his 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon won the...

Gary Crew

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Gary David Crew (born 23 September 1947) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him...

Melissa Lucashenko

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Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of adult literary fiction and literary non-fiction who has also written two novels for teenagers. Lucashenko was born in 1967 in Brisbane...

Bill Scott

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William Neville "Bill" Scott OAM (4 October 1923 – 22 December 2005) was an Australian author, folklorist, songwriter, poet and a collector of bush ballads and Australian folk history. He...

P. L. Travers

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Pamela Lyndon Travers OBE (9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian novelist, actress and journalist, popularly remembered for her series of children's novels about the mystical and...

David Rowbotham

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David Rowbotham (27 August 1924 – 6 October 2010) was an Australian poet and journalist. Rowbotham was born in the Darling Downs of Queensland, in the city of Toowoomba. He attended...

Raymond Dart

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Raymond Arthur Dart (February 4, 1893 – November 22, 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist. The son of a farmer and tradesman, he was married twice and had two children. He is...

Diane Fahey

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Diane Mary Fahey (born 2 January 1945) is an Australian poet. She was born Diane Mary Brotheridge in Melbourne, Australia and currently lives in the Barwon Heads area, near Geelong. A winner...

Sonya Hartnett

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Sonya Hartnett (born 23 February 1968 in Box Hill, Victoria) is an Australian author. Hartnett writes fiction variously for children, young adults and adults and has won numerous prizes and...

Kylie Minogue

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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE, born 28 May 1968, is an Australian pop singer-songwriter and occasional actress. She rose to prominence in the late 1980s through her role in the Australian...

Ben Kiernan

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Benedict F. Kiernan (born 1953 in Melbourne, Australia) is the Whitney Griswold Professor of History, Professor of International and Area Studies and Director of the Genocide Studies Program...

Janette Turner Hospital

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Janette Turner Hospital is an Australian-born novelist and short story writer. She is also a teacher of literature and creative writing, has often been a writer-in-residence,...

Germaine Greer

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Germaine Greer is an Australian-born writer, academic, journalist and scholar of early modern English literature, widely regarded as one of the most significant feminist voices of...

Gig Ryan

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Gig Ryan, born Elizabeth Anne Martina Ryan, 5 November 1956, is an Australian poet, and daughter of notable Australian surgeon Peter John Ryan Ryan was born in Leicester, England to...

Portia de Rossi

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Portia de Rossi (born 31 January 1973) is an Australian actress, best known for her roles as lawyer Nelle Porter on the television series Ally McBeal and as Lindsay Bluth Fünke on the sitcom...

John Marsden

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John Marsden is an Australian writer. John Marsden was born in Victoria, in 1950, the third of four children. He spent much of his childhood in rural Australia, moving first to...

Henry Handel Richardson

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Henry Handel Richardson, the nom de plume of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, was an Australian author. Born in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia into a prosperous...

Kevin Conner

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Kevin Conner is a Pentecostal theologian who was formerly the senior minister of Waverley Christian Fellowship (now CityLife Church) in Melbourne, Australia. Conner is the author of nearly...

Simon Penny

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Simon Graeme Penny is an Australian artist, theorist, curator and teacher in the field of Interactive Media Art. Penny was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1955. He attended Newington...

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts is an Australian author, most noted for his novel Shantaram. He was a heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison and fled...

Andy Griffiths

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Andrew "Andy" Griffiths is an Australian children's book author and comedy writer. He is most notable for his Just series which was converted into an animated television series...

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