Maria Tumarkin writes books (three to date, fourth on the way), reviews, pieces for performance and essays; she collaborates with visual artists, psychologists and public historians. Her work has been published, performed, carved into dockside tiles and set to music.
David Walsh is the founder of the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart and the author of A Bone of Fact.
Nadia Wheatley’s books include The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift and Australians All: A History of Growing Up from the Ice Age to the Apology. Her journey to Belsen is part of a much wider exploration of her parents’ work with Displaced Persons in post-war Germany.
Tim Winton has published twenty-six books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath), and has twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). He lives in Western Australia.
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