User:Baby ifritah/WP Australian literature

Born April 17, 1962 in Mornington, Victoria. Father Stephen Murray Smith, journalist, & founder of the literary journalOverland. Mother Polish Jewish refugee Nita Bluthel.

Graduated from Melbourne University with a BAHons

Librettist for the opera Love in the Age of Therapy, written with Melbourne composer, Paul Grabowsky

Her most successful play to date,Honour, was first read at the New York Stage and Film Festival in 1995 by Meryl Streep, Sam Waterson and Kyra Sedgwick" and has since been performed in over two dozen countries, including productions on Broadway and at London's Royal National Theatre.

angry young penguins about the Ern Malley affair. based on a real life intruder who entered Germains Greer's home and threatened her.

husband Raymond, son Sam & son ??

Novels
1994 Truce

2002 Judgement Rock

2005 Sunnyside (longlisted for 2006 Miles Franklin)

Plays
Atlanta

2004 Bombshells''

Flame

1995 Honour

1993 Love Child

2007 Nightfall

Rapture

Redemption

Ridge's Lovers

Angry Young Penguins

2006 The Female of the Species

Awards
Louis Esson Prize for Drama 2003 (Premier's Literary Awards) for Rapture Southbank Pacific Prize for Drama 1996 for her play Honour (Premier's Literary Awards)