Top 20 Novelist celebrities in Australia
Here is the latest list of the world's top 20 Novelist celebrities [Updated June 5, 2023].
Colleen McCullough was born
on June 1, 1937
in Australia.
She taught in the Department of Neurology at Yale Medical School in New Haven, Connecticut from 1967 to 1976.
Net Worth 2020: $8 Million
Henry Lawson was born
on June 17, 1867
in Grenfell, Australia.
His image appeared on a 1949 Australian postage stamp.
PL Travers was born
on August 9, 1899
in Maryborough, Australia.
She was deeply unsatisfied with the Disney film adaptation of Mary Poppins and refused to allow a sequel to be produced.
Peter Carey was born
on May 7, 1943
in Australia.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1989.
Philippa Christian was born
on October 20, 1987
in Australia.
Known as the "Number 1 Nanny" in Australia, or, "Australia's Nanny to the Stars," she rose to fame after working as a nanny for a number of celebrities including cricketer Shane Warne and tennis player Lleyton Hewitt.
She published a novel titled Nanny Confidential and began filming her first reality TV show in Los Angeles about life as a celebrity nanny.
Kerry Greenwood was born
on June 17, 1954
in Australia.
Her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger (2002) won the Davitt Award. Her other honors include the Aurealis Award (for The Broken Wheel) and the Ned Kelly Award for lifetime contribution to the crime writing genre.
John Flanagan was born
on May 22, 1944
in Sydney, Australia.
His 2008 work, Erak's Ransom, won the Australian Publishers Association's Book of the Year for Older Children Award.
Joan Lindsay was born
on November 16, 1896
in Melbourne, Australia.
In addition to her works of fiction and non-fiction, she wrote several plays, though these were never published and only one, Wolf, was performed.
Guy Boohby was born
on October 13, 1867
in Australia.
He wrote a number of collections of popular ghost stories, which were included in his collections Uncle Joe's Legacy and Other Stories.
Garth Nix was born
on July 19, 1963
in Melbourne, Australia.
He is best known for his young adult fantasy fiction; however, he also published the Very Clever Baby series for younger audiences.
Sean Williams was born
on May 23, 1967
in Australia.
He won the Writers of the Future contest, which he later judged.
Shirley Hazzard was born
on January 30, 1931
in Sydney, Australia.
She received the O. Henry Award for her 1976 short story, "A Long Story Short."
Tim Winton was born
on August 4, 1960
in Australia.
He created The Tim Winton Young Writers Award to encourage children in Perth, Australia, to write short stories.
Matthew Reilly was born
on July 2, 1974
in Sydney, Australia.
He sold over 3.5 million copies of his books. The rights to the television version of his Jack West series were bought by the ABC network in the United States.
Jay Kristoff was born
on November 11, 1973
in Perth, Australia.
His novella The Last Stormdancer earned him the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Fiction in 2013.
Chris Clark was born
on March 14, 1960
in Australia.
Known best for his Wolfson History Prize-winning work Iron Kingdom: The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947, Clark also published a biography of Kaiser Wilhelm II and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize-winning work titled The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went To War In 1914.
In the early 1990s, Chris Clark began teaching in Cambridge's Modern European History department.
Robert Hughes was born
on July 28, 1938
in Australia.
He hosted a 1990s documentary television series titled American Visions that discussed art produced in the United States from the late Eighteenth Century to the modern day.
Keith Taylor was born
on December 26, 1946
in Australia.
He won six Ditmar awards between 1982 and 1990 and two Aurealis awards.
George Turner was born
on October 15, 1916
in Melbourne, Australia.
Australian writer and literary critic best known for his science fiction novels, The Cupboard Under the Stairs and The Lame Dog Man. His 1988 novel, The Sea and Summer won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award.
In 1984, he published his autobiography titled In the Heart or in the Head: An Essay in Time Travel.
Blanche Dalpuget was born
on January 3, 1944
in Australia.
Her 1981 work, Turtle Beach, won The Age Novel of the Year Award in 1982.
