Artists

Tara June Winch

Tara June Winch’s first novel Swallow the Air received the 2006 Victoria Premier’s Award for Indigenous Literature and was short listed for the Age book of the year.

Tara June Winch / Author biography

Winch is of Wiradjuri, Afghan and English heritage. She was born in 1983, and lives outside Sydney. She is ambassador for Indigenous Literacy Day and is on the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Arts Board of the Australia Council.

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Winch has won the David Unaipon Award for Indigenous Writers, the NSW Premiers Literary Award for New Writing, the Dobbie Award for Womens Writers, the Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist and been shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Award for Short Story collection among others.

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Literature

Fiction

Sydney-based author Charlotte Wood is the acclaimed author of three novels.
http://www.charlottewood.com.au

Tan, Shaun

Literature

Fiction,Children/Young adults,Science fiction

Shaun Tan is an award-winning Australian illustrator, author and graphic novelist.
http://www.shauntan.net/

Miller, Alex

Literature

Fiction

Alex Miller is the author of eight novels and has twice won Australia's premier contemporary literary prize, the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Wharton, Herbert

Literature,Indigenous

Poetry,Children/Young adults,Fiction

Herbert Wharton is an Indigenous Australian, former stockman, and now internationally recognised poet and novelist. Herb is available for readings, public forums, schools, universities and other literary events.

Winton, Tim

Literature

Children/Young adults,Fiction,Non-fiction

The pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation, Tim Winton is also one of Australia's most acclaimed and prolific contemporary authors. Winton’s work has been translated into sixteen languages, and he is patron of the Tim Winton Award for Young Writers.

Scott, Kim

Indigenous,Literature

Fiction,Non-fiction,Poetry,Children/Young adults

Kim Scott has written two novels, a children's book, a non-fiction book in collaboration with Noongar Elder Hazel Brown, and has had poetry and short stories published in a range of anthologies.