Nigel Gray
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 | Nigel Gray is an internationally-acclaimed Irish-born West Australian author. Some sixty of his more than seventy books have been for children. His work has been published in twenty-six countries and twenty-four languages.
His books have won awards and honours in Holland, Germany, France, the UK, the USA and Australia. |
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He is a past winner of the Dickens' Fellowship Award, and the Irish Post Award for literature. He has taught numerous writing workshops in schools, colleges, universities, libraries, arts centres, writer's centres, centres for the unemployed, and prisons.
Nigel lives with wife, Yasmin, in Kalamunda, a small town in the hills outside Perth, the capital of Western Australia.
Pat Lowe
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Pat Lowe was born in England. At the age of eleven she went to boarding school, where she suffered from chilblains and dreamed of migrating to Australia. After working as a post woman and then spending three years as a secondary school teacher in East Africa, Pat studied psychology. In 1972 she sailed into Fremantle on a Russian ship, and became an Australian citizen as soon as she was eligible. Pat worked as a psychologist in a children's home and later in Western Australian prisons. |
Pat was transferred to Broome, where she met Aboriginal artist Jimmy Pike, who had grown up in the Great Sandy Desert. In 1986 Pat and Jimmy went to live in the desert for three years. When they were not exploring or hunting, Jimmy continued painting and Pat started to write.
Desert Dog won the 1998 Western Australian Premier's Children's Book Award and was a Children's Book Council of Australia Notable Book. Many of the characters in Feeling the Heat first appeared as younger characters in The Girl With No Name, published by Penguin in 1994. The Girl With No Name was short listed for the Multicultural Children's Literature Award and has been published in Italian.
Awards:
Aust Multicultural Children's BOTY
Award - Book of the Year
Shortlisted - 1995 for The Girl With No Name
Family Award for Children's Books
Highly Commended - 1995 for The Girl With No Name
Sonia Martinez
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Sonia is a Western Australia based illustrator and graphic designer. She has studied ancient history, fine art and design, and recently graduated from Curtin University with a major in illustration.Her work incorporates many different styles and media, both digital and traditional, but always contains a sense of caprice. |
The World According to Warren was her first book. Sonia lives in Fremantle with her partner and their two children. |
Gregory Day
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Gregory Day is a writer, poet and musician whose debut novel The Patron Saint Of Eels (Picador 2005) won the prestigious Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 2006 and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Best First Book Prize in the same year. |
His CDs include The Black Tower: Songs from the Poetry of WB Yeats, which was hailed by the Yeats Society of Ireland as the finest musical interpretations of Yeats ever made, and his most recent release The Flash Road: Scenes From The Building of the Great Ocean Road. His second novel Ron McCoy’s Sea of Diamonds (Picador 2007) has been shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premiers Prize for fiction. Gregory is also a regular contributor to the literary pages of The Age newspaper.
Norman Jorgensen
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Norman Jorgensen was born in Broome, Western Australia in 1954 and moved to Perth with his family in 1964. Norman, the eldest of four brothers, lived in several country towns throughout Western Australia during his childhood. He became an avid reader after discovering The Secret Seven by Enid Blyton. ‘I became hooked on reading. I thought the Secret Seven had the most exciting lives imaginable and desperately wanted to be the eighth member |
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Norman gets a great deal of satisfaction discovering real historical events to be adapted and shared but his greatest delight is in turning ordinary, everyday events into catastrophic episodes for his comedy writing. ‘If you ask “what can go wrong?” then you will never run short of material to write about.’ His previous titles include Ashe of the Outback, In Flanders Fields (Winner 2003 Children’s Picture Book of the Year), The Call of the Osprey, A Fine Mess and Another Fine Mess 002.
Alice Nelson
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 | Alice Nelson is a Perth-born writer who has spent several years living and studying abroad. She studied creative writing at the University of Western Australia and the renowned Master’s program at the City University of New York in Manhattan.
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Tash Parker
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Tash Parker is a vibrant young singer-songwriter originally from Kununurra, Western Australia; a little lady with one big voice.
Since picking up the guitar for the first time at age 17, Tash has written over 40 songs and performed alongside some of Australia's music industry greats including The Waifs, James Blundell, Kate Ceberano, Wendy Matthews and Richard Clapton. |
This talented young lady is now working with a collection of producers in Melbourne on her second coming Album to be released independently in August 2008
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