Sydney, Australia: 2005 - Writers
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Mary Moody (Judges' Prize Winner)
Mary is a prolific gardening author and a former presenter on ABC TV’s ‘Gardening Australia’. Her gardening books include The Good Life (1995) and A Gardener’s Companion (2001), but she is best known for her three volumes of memoir, Au Revoir, Last Tango In Paris and Lunch With Madame Murat. Every year Mary leads treks to the Himalayas and tours of southwest France to observe native flora. She lives outside Bathurst in country NSW.
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Roxzan Bowes (Bryce Courtenay Award)
Roxzan was awarded the Sydney Morning Herald’s Young Writer of the year in 2004.
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Kate Forsyth
Kate is the proud author of around a dozen books, including one collection of poetry, two children’s books, one serious literary attempt, and several big, fat fantasy series. Her books have been published in Australia, the US and Canada, the UK, Germany and Russia, and she has received fan mail from Saudi Arabia, Korea, Finland and the Netherlands, where one fan is attempting to translate her books into Dutch. She has a BA In Literature and a MA in Writing, and writes articles for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including Spectrum, Good Reading, and The Age.
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Terri Janke
Terri is a writer who works full time as a lawyer. Her practice focuses on Indigenous art and intellectual and cultural property. She has written many articles and reports on legal issues.
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Lewie JPD
Lewie JPD was induced to the world of professional writing at the age of fifteen when he was commissioned to write comedy sketches for NHK TV in Tokyo about the life of an Australian family in the seventies.
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Dr Karl Kruszelnicki
Whenever the announcer gives out the phone number for Karl Kruszelnicki’s famous Science Talkback show, ‘Great Moments in Science,’ on Triple J, on Thursday mornings — so many calls come in that the ABC switchboard crashes!
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John Larkin
Since the publication of his first adolescent novel Spaghetti Legs in 1993, John Larkin has gone on to become one of the most prolific and successful writers for children in Australia. In a career spanning twelve years John has had twenty books published both locally and internationally and is widely regarded as one of (if not the) funniest writer(s) in the country.
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David A Rollins
By the time David A. Rollins began writing his first novel he’d already parachuted, raced motorcycles, boxed, earned his aerobatic pilot’s license and driven sports cars. There was very little room to manoeuvre when it came to expressing his mid-life crisis, except of course to change career paths. So he threw in his job as a successful, award-winning advertising writer/creative director to try his hand at being an international best-selling thriller novelist. This has so far proved to be his riskiest undertaking yet.
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