Nadia Wheatley

Over a career of forty years, Nadia Wheatley has published a number of 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 2001 Age Nonfiction 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 Nadia is also the editor of Sneaky Little Revolutions, Selected Essays of Charmian Clift and of Clift’s previously unpublished novella, The End of the Morning.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 an historian and her contribution to our understanding of Indigenous issues, cultural diversity, equity and social justice and the environment through story’.