aussie_authors

Australia is blessed with a large pool of talented authors and illustrators.

Follow the links to discover more about them and the tales they tell.

Let us know of any who write or illustrate for younger readers that you would like to see added, as well as websites for those whom we have been unable to link to. Thanks to Jill Ball and Trish Wade for whose work has contributed greatly to these pages.

Deborah Abela	Pamela Allen April 3	Felice Arena
Jeannie Baker November 2	Alan Baillie January 29	Duncan Ball February 9	Shirley Barber June 23	Graeme Base April 6
Dianne Bates May 20	Dyan Blacklock	Ian Bone	Janeen Brian March 13	Lorette Broekstra
Errol Broome	Alyssa Brugman
Isobelle Carmody June 16	Brian Caswell January 13	Chris Cheng May 10	Anna Ciddor	Margaret Clark August 20
Rod Clement	Meredith Costain	Gary Crew September 23	Phil Cummings
Andrew Daddo	Kim Dale	Max Dann December 6	Justin D’Ath	Terry Denton
Garry Disher August 15	Ursula Dubosarsky June 25	Mike Dumbleton
Nick Earls	Hazel Edwards September 21
Max Fatchen August 3	Anna Fienberg November 23	Pat Flynn	Rachel Flynn June 13	Lisa Forrest
Elaine Forrestal	Mem Fox March 5	Pamela Freeman April 15	Jackie French November 30	Simon French November 26
Kim Gamble	Susanne Gervay	May Gibbs January 17	Libby Gleeson September 19	Morris Gleitzman January 9
Peter Gouldthorpe July 30	Bob Graham October 30	Nigel Gray April 9	Andy Griffiths September 3
Penny Hall	Christine Harris	Sonia Hartnett	Roland Harvey December 11	Libby Hathorn September 26
Geoff Havel	John Heffernan	Rolf Heimann	Stephen Herrick January 31	Anthony Hill
Nette Hilton September 30	Odo Hirsch	Leigh Hobbs April 18	Elizabeth Honey February 7	Michael Hyde November 20
Robert Ingpen October 13	Julie Ireland
Ann James October 6	Paul Jennings April 30	Catherine Jinks November 17		Norman Jorgenson
Victor Kelleher July 19	Phil Kettle	Gretel Killeen	Stephen Michael King	Robin Klein February 28
Henry Lawson June 17	Alison Lester November 17	Norman Lindsay Bebruary 22	Dave Luckett	Morris Lurie October 30
John Marsden September 27	Sophie Masson May 18	Penny Matthews	Christobel Mattingley October 26	Andrew & Janet McLean
David McRobbie September 17	Geoffrey McSkimming January 1	Jen McVeity	Stephen Measday	David Metzenthen December 28
David Miller	Chris Milne	James Moloney September 20	Junko Morimoto March 31	Jill Morris March 28
John Nicholson	Garth Nix July 19
Sally Odgers	Tricia Oktober	Narelle Oliver February 25	Wendy Orr November 19
A.B. (Banjo) Paterson February 17	Leone Peguero	Anna Pignataro	Roy Pond	Natalie Prior November 10
Felicity Pulman
Emily Rodda April 2	James Roy August 9	Gillian Rubenstein August 29
Michael Salmon April 4	Irini Savides	Lisa Shanahan	Craig Smith	Ivan Southall June 8
Anne Spudvilas	Elizabeth Stanley	Ruth Starke	Marguerite Hann Syme
Shaun Tan	Colin Thiele November 16	Colin Thompson October 18	Kim Michelle Toft	Allan Tucker
Susanna Van Essen	Julie Vivas
Jenny Wagner	Dorothy Wall January 12	Bruce Whatley February 13	Nadia Wheatley April 30	Margaret Wild April 24
Tim Winton	Steven Woolman	Patricia Wrightson June 19
Marcus Zusak

Click here for a list of birthdays for international authors and illustrators

Complied by Barbara Braxton
May 2003
Updated November 2004