Nadia Wheatley
Autor(a) de My Place
About the Author
Nadia Wheatley is an Australian writer, born on April 30, 1949 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She began writing full-time in 1976 and has written numerous award-winning picture books, novels, and works of history for children and adults. She has twice received the New South Wales Premier's mostrar mais Children's Book Prize. Her biography of Charmian Clift won the New South Wales Premier's Award for Australian History (2002). Her other work includes My Place (illustrated by Donna Rawlins), The House that was Eureka, The Papunya School Book of Country and History (in collaboration with Aboriginal students and staff at Papunya School - Northern Territory) and Going Bush which received an Australian Award for Excellence in Educational Publishing (2007). In 2016, her book, Flight (illustrated by Armin Greder), won the 2016 Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year Award, Picture Book of the Year. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Séries
Obras por Nadia Wheatley
Widow Wilberforce and the Lyrebird 1 exemplar
Playground by Nadia Wheatley (2012-02-01) 1 exemplar
Papunya school book 1 exemplar
Associated Works
She's Fantastical: The First Anthology of Australian Women's Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism and Fantasy (1995) — Contribuidor — 33 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Wheatley, Nadia
- Nome legal
- Johnston, Nadia Wheatley
- Outros nomes
- Mara, N.K.
- Data de nascimento
- 1949-04-30
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australië
- Local de nascimento
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australië
- Locais de residência
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australië
Kreta, Griekenland
Astros, Griekenland
Londen, Engeland, UK
Newtown, Australië - Educação
- Macquarie University (MA Hons)
University of Sydney (BA, BA Hons - History) - Ocupações
- children's book author
young adult writer
short-story writer
biographer - Relações
- Johnston, Martin (Vriend en partner)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Nadia Wheatley (born 30 April 1949) is an award winning Australian writer of children’s fiction and non-fiction, adult non-fiction and biographies, and newspaper and journal articles. Her works often focus on "the difficulties faced by Aborigines or non-English-speaking newcomers to Australia, ... environmental issues and the effects of social change”. She has been involved in developing projects to raise children's awareness about their environment and local history.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 28
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 910
- Popularidade
- #28,190
- Avaliação
- 3.4
- Críticas
- 18
- ISBN
- 91
- Línguas
- 3