Hi Mariquita
Are you interested in a particlular genre?
- Paul Jennings, for example, is a famous contemporary children�s author. He has won dozens of awards as well as an Order for Australia for his services to children�s literature.
-Colleen McCulloch wrote several award winning books and has also been awarded an Order of Australia. Her most famous novel is �The Thorn Birds�, an epic set in the Australian outback. It was later made into a best selling mini-series.
- Henry Handel Richardson was a female writing under a male name (as they did in those days). Her most famous book was �The Getting of Wisdom� written in 1910 and made into a movie in the �70s.
- Miles Franklin was very famous. She wrote �My Brilliant Career� in 1901 when she was a teenager. It tells the story of an irrepressible teenage feminist growing to womanhood. This has also been made into a film.
- Helen Garner (wrote based on her own life experiences), Kathy Lette (humour), Kerry Greenwood (crime), Sally Morgan & Alexis Wright (both indigenous writers) and Rachael Treasure (Australian outback) are just a few contempory female authors. They are all great.
You can find a list of
significant Australian authors
here and a
complete list here
We have one Nobel Prize winner in literature, Patrick White (1973).
Cheers
or any Australian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature?
