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B. Michael Radburn (Australian)
B. Michael Radburn has been writing professionally now for many years, having over 90 short stories published here and abroad, and cutting a niche in freelance journalism over the past decade. He was Publishing Editor of the iconic Australian Horror & Fantasy Magazine in the 1980’s, and founder of Dark Press Publications. His first novel, The Crossing, was published by Pantera Press in 2011. His second novel, Blackwater Moon, was published in October 2012 to rave reviews. |
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Morag Ramsay (Australian)
Morag Ramsay is a producer/director for ABC TV’s Four Corners. A three times Walkley Award winner, she has been with the program for more than a decade. Her programs have ranged from political profiles and investigative digs to fly on-the-wall documentaries. In 2011 she curated the ABC’s exhibition marking the 50th anniversary of Four Corners. |
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Scott Rankin (Australian)
Scott Rankin is a writer, and for 20 years the creative director and executive producer of Big hART. His collaborative projects have won many awards. He is an Australia Council fellow and lives on the northwest coast of Tasmania with his partner, artist Rebecca Lavis, and their children Darcy, Locky and Ginger. His essay Tasmanian utopias was published in Griffith REVIEW 39: Tasmania – The Tipping Point?. |
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Catherine Rey (Australian)
Catherine Rey is a French-Australian author whose novels include The Intimate Friend, Happy Daysand Praise of Forgetfulness, all published in French. Two of her novels, The Spruiker's Tale and Stepping Out, have been translated from the French and published by Giramonda Press. Her most recent novel The Extraordinary Adventures of John Lofty Oakes was published in France in 2009. Rey is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Writing & Society Research Centre, UWS. |
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Hannah Richell (Australian)
Hannah Richell was born in England and she worked as a book marketer in London before emigrating to Australia in 2005. Following a stint working in the film industry in Sydney, Hannah left to have her first child and began writing as a guilty pleasure in stolen moments during her day. She currently lives in Sydney with her husband and their two young children. Her debut novel Secrets of the Tides sold all over the world and The Shadow Year will be published in 2013. |
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Matt Richell (Australian)
Matt worked in London publishing for Bloomsbury, Pan Macmillan and Hachette before moving to Australia in 2005. He has worked for Hachette in Sydney since then. His publishing career has been spent in sales, marketing and publicity, before recently moving into the role of CEO at Hachette Australia. |
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Judith Ridge (Australian)
Judith Ridge is an internationally recognised specialist in children’s and youth literature. She has been an English teacher, editor, writer, critic and teacher of children’s literature and creative writing. She is currently the project officer for WestWords - the Western Sydney Young People’s Literature Development Project. Judith is a Churchill Fellow and has a master’s in children’s literature. |
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Molly Ringwald (International)
Molly Ringwald is an actress, singer and writer. She lives and works in New York and Los Angeles. When it Happens to You is her first work of fiction. |
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Sally Rippin (Australian)
Sally Rippin was born in Darwin and grew up in South-East Asia. As an adolescent she studied traditional Chinese painting for three years in Shanghai and Hangzhou. Returning to Australia, she wrote her first novel Chenxi and the Foreigner, which was inspired by her time overseas. Sally has also written and illustrated many books for children, including titles from the Go Girl, Our Australian Girls and Aussie Bites series as well as the popular Billie B Brown and Hey Jack! stories. Recently, Sally illustrated Mannie and the Long Brave Day by Martine Murray, which was shortlisted for the 2010 Prime Minister’s Awards. In 2011, her children's novel, Angel Creek, was published to critical acclaim and went on to be shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Sally lives in Melbourne and writes and illustrates full time. |
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Ruth Ritchie (Australian)
Ruth Ritchie is an author, playwright, ex-advertising copywriter and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald. After a decade of writing about food, cleaning, sex and bars, Ruth found herself at home, pinned under several children, and snapped the position of TV critic at in Saturday's Sydney Morning Herald. Although she had held this gig for almost 15 years, she has never written about Home and Away or The Bill. This is a source of great pride to Ruth. |
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Jamila Rizvi (Australian)
Jamila Rizvi is editor of Australia's largest independent women's website, Mamamia and a columnist for Cosmopolitan magazine. She has previously worked in politics and public policy as Deputy Chief of Staff to Minister Kate Ellis and in the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's media unit. |
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Archie Roach (Australian)
Once in a lifetime, an artist with an extraordinary spirit comes along. Archie Roach, a storyteller in the tradition of his ancestors, relays intimate real life stories through song that has touched the hearts of audiences around the world. Born in 1955, Archie was forcibly taken from his family from the Framlingham Aboriginal Mission in Victoria’s south west. He was only three years old. The next decade was spent living in foster homes until a letter from a sister he didn’t know sparked an angry search for his real identity and place in the world. During this time Archie met Ruby Hunter, a Ngarrindjeri woman from South Australia who had also been forcibly removed. It is Ruby that Archie credits for the couple’s decision to give up drinking and make a life for themselves. They raised a family, which included two children of their own and three foster children plus a revolving door of children in need of shelter and refuge. Ruby passed away suddenly in February 2010. |
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Michael Robotham (Australian)
Michael Robotham was an investigative journalist in Britain, Australia and the US, before he decided to write full-time. He is the pseudonymous author of ten best-selling non-fiction titles, involving prominent figures in the military, the arts, sport and science. He lives in Sydney with his wife and three daughters. His most recent novel is Say You’re Sorry. |
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Stephen Romei (Australian)
Stephen Romei is literary editor of The Australian. His blog, A Pair of Ragged Claws, is at theaustralian.com.au/thearts |
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Joe Rospars (International)
For both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, Joe Rospars was Barack Obama's principal digital strategist and adviser, overseeing the digital integration of the unprecedented fundraising, communications, and grassroots mobilisation effort. The digital arm of the campaign provided the backbone of design and branding both online and offline, and engaged a record-breaking number of Americans through mobile, social, video and the web. Rospars is also the co-founder and CEO of Blue State Digital. He has been named in Advertising Age's Digital A-List, included in BBC’s Digital Giants round-up and named in Rolling Stone's list of the 100 People Who Are Changing America. |
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Nicolas Rothwell (Australian)
Nicolas Rothwell is a Walkley award winning journalist and writer whose books include Heaven and Earth, Wings of the Kite-Hawk, Another Country, The Red Highway and Journeys to the Interior. His most recent book is Belomor. He lives in Darwin, and is The Australian’s roving northern correspondent. |
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Josephine Rowe (Australian)
Josephine Rowe was born in 1984 and lives in Melbourne. In 2011 she was the Australian representative at the University of Iowa's International Writing Program. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Meanjin, Overland, Best Australian Stories, Best Australian Poems, The Iowa Review, and Griffith Review. They have also been reinterpreted as short films, performance pieces and broadcast on radio. Her new short story collection Tarcutta Wake, explores the idea of things that are left behind. |
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James Roy (Australian)
James Roy's books for young people have earned popular and critical praise. Town, his celebrated short story collection, won the NSW Premier’s Award and the Golden Inky Teen Choice Award, and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award and the German Youth Literature Prize. His latest releases are Miss Understood and City, which is the companion to Town. He lives in the Blue Mountains. |
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Arne Rubinstein (Australian)
Dr Arne Rubinstein is an expert on adolescent development and rites of passage, CEO of social enterprise Uplifting Australia and part-time ER doctor. He was nominated for 2008 Australian of the Year. More than 20,000 people around the world have attended his programs designed to help teens make the transition from boy to young man. The Making of Men is a practical handbook for parents of boys, and the culmination of years of experience in working with children and parents. |
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón (International)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels, including the international bestsellers The Shadow of the Wind, The Angel's Game and The Prisoner of Heaven. His work has been published in more than 40 languages and honoured with numerous awards. He divides his time between Barcelona and Los Angeles. |
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Grazia Rusticali (International)
Grazia studied Foreign languages and literature at the University of Bologna, where she specialised in English literature and Romance philology. Since graduating with a master in Publishing directed by Umberto Eco, in 2004, she has been working at Edizioni Piemme. One of the latest acquisitions was Burial Rites, the wonderful debut novel by Hannah Kent, which will be one of their top titles for 2014. |
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Edward Rutherfurd (International)
Edward Rutherfurd is the best-selling author of sweeping historical epics including Sarum, New York, London and now, Paris, brilliant fictional sagas set against meticulously researched historical backgrounds. He has worked as a political researcher, a bookseller, worked in a council home and studied for a Stanford MBA. A fascinating mind and a master storyteller, Edward Rutherford is not to be missed. |
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Juanita Ruys (Australian)
Dr Juanita Feros Ruys is director of the Sydney Node of the Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions at the University of Sydney. She specialises in Medieval Latin and her research focuses on medieval approaches to autobiography, sexual temptation, suicidal emotions, and the emotions attributed to demons. She is a specialist in the writings of the medieval thinkers Abelard and Heloise and has just completed a book on the late life poetry written by Abelard. |
