Anne Bartlett
Author's name:
Anne Bartlett
Author description:
Anne Bartlett grew up in rural South Australia and studied English and Drama at Flinders University. She has worked variously as editor, ghostwriter, humour columnist, biographer, feature, and children's writer, and taught creative writing at Flinders University and the University of Adelaide. Her children�s book The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia (2001 Times Editions, Singapore, and Lerner, USA ) is on Premier�s Reading Lists in SA, Vic, NSW & ACT. After working on commissions from State Aboriginal Affairs she is now concentrating on literary fiction. Hobbies include knitting, gardening and collecting fruit trees.
Latest book:
Knitting
Penguin/Houghton Mifflin, Melbourne, London, New York, 2005
Knitting is a story of an unlikely friendship between two very different women. Sandra is a brittle academic grieving the loss of her husband to cancer, while Martha, a widow since she was eighteen, is an artist with a tendency to visions and madness. Knitting was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award 2006.
Sample bibliography:
The Chairman: the story of Garnett Ian Wilson, OAM
Australian Scholarly Publishing, Melbourne, Australia, 2004
The Aboriginal Peoples of Australia
Lerner Publications (Minneapolis) and Times Publications (Singapore), USA & Singapore, 2002
Daisy Bates: keeper of totems
Reed Library/Cardigan Street, Melbourne, 1997
Genres:
Australiana, (Auto)biography, Essays/articles, Literary fiction, Multicultural, Non-fiction, Women's fiction
Web site:
www.annebartlett.com.au
Contact author:
Anne Bartlett
Email: annebartlett@adelaide.edu.au
Address: PO Box 1223, Blackwoode SA 5051
Contact literary agent:
Joy Harris Literary Agency
Email: joyharris@jhlitagent.com
Address: suite 617, 156 5th Ave, New York NY 10010, USA
Available for:
workshops, mentoring, assessments, speaking engagements
The SA Writers' Centre is assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory bodies.