Best sellers, these unique records of Australian outback culture are sold all over the world via her website. Fiona has published two coffee-table style books called A Million Acre Masterpiece and Life as an Australian Horseman. His recent picture book with Jan Ormerod, Shake a Leg, was awarded the Prime Minister’s Literary Award 2011, and in 2012 Boori was named Children’s Laureate for National Year of Reading.įind Boori Monty Pryor's books at CityLibrariesįiona Lake įor more than 25 years Fiona Lake has specialised in photographing and writing about Australia’s largest cattle stations, which are the largest in the world. Early in his career Boori received an award for the promotion of indigenous culture from The National Aboriginal and Islander Observance Committee. In 2000 The Binna Binna Man received three of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards including Book of the Year. Their second book, My Girragundji, was awarded The Children’s Book Council of Australia 1999 Book of The Year Award. His father was from the Birrigubba of the Bowen and Whitsunday region and his mother is from Yarrabah (near Cairns), a descendant of the Kungganjiīoori has collaborated with Meme McDonald on five books including the bestseller Maybe Tomorrow which received a Special Commendation at the 1998 Human Rights Awards. Monty was born in Townsville, north Queensland. When she’s not lost in the world of her stories, she’s enjoying farmers’ markets, gardening clubs and writing groups, or preparing for visits from family and friends.īarbara records her country life in her blog Barbwired and her website is Find Barbara Hannay's books at CityLibrariesīoori Monty Pryor Storyteller / Writer / Performer / Australian Children’s Laureateīoori is a multi-talented performer who has worked in numerous industries including film, television, modelling, sport, music and theatre-in-education. Although she has mostly lived in cities where she was an English teacher for many years, now that her family has grown up and she’s a full time writer, she enjoys a country lifestyle.īarbara and her husband live on a misty hillside in Far North Queensland’s Atherton Tableland. Since then, a love of both city and country lifestyles has been a continuing theme in Barbara’s books and in her life. It was about a girl who’s devastated when her family has to move from the city to the Australian Outback. She wrote her first short story at the age of eight for the Brownie’s writer’s badge. Reading and writing have always been a big part of Barbara Hannay’s life. Barbara won a RITA for best traditional romance for Claiming His Family in 2007, and won the Australian R*BY award for best category romance in 2005 for Her Playboy Challenge. These awards are judged by fellow authors, and are highly prized in the industry – romance writing’s equivalent to the Oscars. Barbara Hannay īooks: 39 titles for Harlequin Mills and Boon as well as titles for Penguin.Īwards: Barbara has received nominations for RITA awards from Romance Writers of America.
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