Nadia Wheatley
ABOUT
Nadia Wheatley
Over a forty-year career, Nadia Wheatley has published several award-winning works of fiction, history, and biography. Her most recent books are the memoir Her Mother’s Daughter (winner of the 2019 Waverley NIB Literary Award), Radicals: Remembering the Sixties and The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift (winner of The Age’s 2001 Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the 2002 NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize). Nadia is also the editor of Sneaky Little Revolutions, Selected Essays of Charmian Clift and of Clift’s previously unpublished novella, The End of the Morning. In 2014, the University of Sydney awarded Nadia an Honorary Doctorate of Letters, in recognition of ‘her exceptional creative achievements in the field of literature, her work as a historian and her contribution to our understanding of Indigenous issues, cultural diversity, equity and social justice and the environment through story’.
PROGRAM SESSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF COUNTRY
The Manly Writers' Festival acknowledges and thanks the original storytellers on the lands on which our events take place, the Gameraygal people of the Eora Nation. We acknowledge and respect their continuing connection and culture, and we pay our respects to ancestors and Elders, past and present, as well as emerging leaders.