by Amalthea Bishop Meir
Born in a valley of wheat and light, she knows horses and the sea and the poetry of life.
Born in Brisbane, Queensland in 1934, he left Australia aged twenty-four and lived in Britain from 1959-68 where he taught in London and Birkenhead. He returned to Australia in 1968 and lectured at the University of Sydney. He became a full-time writer in 1978 and now lives in Sydney. His first two published books were both collections of poetry: Bicycle and Other Poems (1970) and Neighbours in a Thicket: Poems (1974). He later published another collection of poems Revolving Days (2008). He is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including An Imaginary Life (1978), The Great World (1990) winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger, Remembering Babylon (1993), shortlisted for the Booker Prize and winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, The Conversations at Curlow Creek (1996) and Ransom (2009), and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street (1985). He has published three collections of short-stories Antipodes (1985), Dream Stuff (2000) and Every Move You Make (2006). He also wrote the libretti for Voss, an adaptation of the novel by Patrick White and first produced in Sydney in 1986, and Baa Baa Black Sheep, an opera with music by Michael Berkeley, the play Blood Relations (1988), and his latest collaboration with Michael Berkeley is the opera Jane Eyre (2000). He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2000 and the inaugural Australia-Asia Literary Award in 2008.
Born in Karachi and raised in Lahore, Pakistan, she has been widely celebrated as the finest novelist produced by her country. She is the author of several novels, including The Crow Eaters, An American Brat, Cracking India, The Pakistani Bride, and Water, which have been translated and published in several languages. Her anthology City of Sin and Splendour: Writings on Lahore was published in 2006. Among her many honours, she received the Bunting Fellowship at Radcliffe/Harvard, the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writer’s Award, the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, Pakistan’s highest national honour in the arts, and the LiBeraturepreis in Germany and the 2007 Premio Mondello Award in Italy. She was also on the advisory committee to Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Women’s Development and has taught at Columbia University, University of Houston, Mount Holyoke College, Southampton University and Brandeis. Her novels Cracking India and Water were made into the film Earth and Water by Canadian director Deepa Mehta. Her play Sock ’em with Honey was staged in London (2003) and An American Brat was produced by Stages Repertory Theater in Houston (2007). She now lives in Houston, Texas.
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