Which New York-based Australian has won the Booker Prize twice, first in 1988 with Oscar and Lucinda , and again in 2001 with The True History of the Kelly Gang ?
What was the title of Kate Grenville's novel, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2001?
Which Australian writer hit the international big time after Steven Spielberg adapted his novel Schindler's List , despite having produced a book every 12-18 months for the previous four decades?
What was the title of David Malouf's novel, which won the first International IMPAC Award in 1996, and which is set in 1850s northern Australia, focussing on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals?
Which poet, who grew up on a dairy farm in New South Wales and went on to be awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry (on the recommendation of Ted Hughes), wrote a poem called 'The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever'?
In which of his books was Bruce Chatwin exploring the ancient tracks of Aboriginal culture?
Which Nobel laureate, who died in 1990, achieved his international breakthrough with the novel Voss , about a doomed journey into his native Australian desert?
Which Booker-shortlisted novel by Perth-born writer Tim Winton, centres on the troubled alliance between washed up stepmother Georgie Jutland and jinxed poacher Luther Fox?
Which prolific medical-sounding author, born in Melbourne, has published novels including The Tiger in the Tiger Pit , Oyster , Borderline , Charades and Isobars ?
In 2001 Louis de Bernieres published a semi-fictional biography of an Australian sheep dog, inpsired by stories about the creature that he'd heard while in Perth. What was it called?
