Writing about Australian landscape here is almost a ... family also influenced her career path. Ruby's mother is young-adult author Kirsty Murray, her grandfather was sculptor Guy Boyd, and ...

Australia has a strong tradition of dystopian fiction for young adults as well ... and an escape from the urban world. Perhaps Australian authors cling to a romantic ideal of childhood and ...

Will Kostakis a young adult author who is defending sophisticated ... Beckton later told a conference of Australian academics that it was one she would have preferred to have when her son was ...

While the overall Australian publishing scene is ... we are marketed as young adult," says Amie Kaufman, the co-author of the Starbound Trilogy and the Illuminae series. "Young adult readers ...

That's how Rebecca Lim feels about the current state of Young Adult (YA ... frustration at the dearth of diverse Australian voices in children's and YA literature. It's a timely topic.

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