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Mark O'Connor (1945 - ) Mark O'Connor has published over a dozen collections of poetry, plus a book of essays (Modern Australian Styles, Foundation for Australian Literary Studies, 1982) and a book of environmental prose This Tired Brown Land (Duffy and Snellgrove, 1998). Numerous talks include a series of 6 talks on the ABC Science Show in 1985. An A.B.C. TV documentary on O'Connor's poems about the Barrier Reef was first broadcast on A Big Country in 1983. In 2000 he was given a grant from the Australia Council to write poetry about the 2000 Olympic Games and 'remote' regions of Australia. Mark graduated from Melbourne University with Honours in English and Classics and taught English Literature at the University of Western Australia and the Australian National University. The recipient of many prizes and awards, O'Connor has taught and read his poetry in Britain, Europe, Russia, India, China and the USA.    Photo of Mark O'Connor by Ron Evans, 1999. Some of his books include, The Olive Tree: Collected Poems (Hale and Iremonger, Sydney, 2001), Reef Poems (UQP, 1976), Poetry in Pictures: The Great Barrier Reef (with photos by Neville Coleman, Hale & Iremonger, 1986), Two Centuries of Australian Poetry (editor/poetry anthology, Oxford University Press, 1988, reprinted 6 times) and The Forever Lands (with photographer John Kirk, Beyond Images, 2000). His play Planting the Dunk Botanic Gardens is currently touring Australia, and will go to Edinburgh in August 2007. Mark O'Connor can be contacted at: Email: marko (át) teknet (dót) net (dót) au    Go to Mark O'Connor's website   Read Mark O'Connor's olympic poetry

Sally Odgers (D.O.B. - ) Sally Odgers was born in Latrobe in Tasmania, Australia, and still lives there with her husband and co-author Darrel and an assortment of creatures. They have two adult children. Sally has been writing since the 1970s. Apart from writing, she also runs workshops and a small manuscript assessment business called Affordable Assessments. Sally co-writes the "Jack Russell; Dog Detective" series for Scholastic with her husband, Darrel. Titles include Dog Den Mystery, The Awful Pawful and The Buried Biscuits. Many of Sally's 250+ published books have been written under pseudonyms for the educational market. She thinks she is probably Tasmania's most published living writer.    Photo of Sally Odgers and Preacher by photographer unknown, 2007. Sally Odgers's publications include: Dreadful David (Omnibus 1984), Translations in Celadon (HarperCollins/A&R 1998), Candle Iron (HarperCollins/A&R 2000), Boy Downunder (Leisure Books 2004), Gold's Bride (Mundania Press, 2005), I'm Big Enough (Koala Books 2002 - Talespinner edition 2007). Sally Odgers can be contacted at Email: sodgers (át) iinet (dót) net (dót) au   Go to Sally Odgers's website

Dan O'Donnell (D.O.B. - ) [B.A. (Qld.), M.A. (Newc.), M.A. (Qld.), Ph.D. (Qld.)] Extensive experience in education as teacher (primary and secondary) in NSW, Quebec, Scotland, Ontario and Queensland. Lecturer to teacher-trainees in English (Newcastle Teachers' College) and Education (North Brisbane CAE). Author of eighteen books. Many of the latter have been broadcast on Brisbane ABC Radio 612 4QR (with brilliant voice-over by Paul Bodington, ABC Talkshow Host). A number of his articles on Pacific and Australian history have been published in the widely-respected Journal of the RAHS, Historical Studies of Australia and NZ, and Pacific History. Today, a full-time poet, historian and freelance writer.    Photo of Dan O'Donnell by Elite Photos (Brisbane), 1995. Dan O'Donnell's publications include: Insert publications.

Bernard O'Dowd (1866 - 1953)

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Mark O'Flynn (1958 - ) Mark O'Flynn began writing for the theatre after graduating from the VCA. He has had seven plays professionally produced, including Eleanor & Eve, and Paterson's Curse, published by Currency Press in 1988. As a playwright he has worked for numerous community theatre companies including The Mill Theatre Company, MRPG, Riverina Theatre Company, as well as the Victorian Arts Council T.I.E wing. He was writer-in-residence at Deakin University in 1985 and 1987. A play co-written with Anthony Lawrence was staged at La Mama in 1999. He has also published a novella, Captain Cook, and two books of poetry, The Too Bright Sun, and The Good Oil. Mark O'Flynn's fiction, reviews, and poetry have been published in magazines in Australia and overseas.    Photo of Mark O'Flynn by Barbara Fitzgerald, 1999. Recently his story The Last Man was produced by the Regional Production Fund to be broadcast on ABC Radio in 2003. He has had several short stories read on radio 5UV, and has read his own work on ABC regional radio, 2BL, and Radio National. In 2001 he was a founding member of Weatherboard Theatre Company which received funding to write Eleanor & Eve from the NSW Ministry for the Arts, a portion of which was published in Hecate, 2002. This play was also produced at Railway Street Theatre Company in November, 2003. A new novel Grassdogs will be published by Harper/Collins in June 2006. Mark O'Flynn's publications include: Poetry: The Too Bright Sun, (Five Islands Press: New Poets Program, 1996), The Good Oil, (Five Islands Press, 2000); Novel: Captain Cook, (Pascoe, 1987); Play: Paterson's Curse, (Currency Press, 1988). Mark O'Flynn can be contacted at Email: moflynn (át) vtown (dót) com (dót) au

Will H. Ogilvie (1869 - 1963)

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John O'Grady - Writer (D.O.B. - )

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Bronwyn Oliver (D.O.B. - )

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Keith Oliver (1933 - ) Keith Oliver was born in Perth Western Australia. Although he only completed two years at high school he studied in later life, being awarded a BSc (multidisciplinary science) from Curtin University in 1994, with First Class Honours in Biological Science at Murdoch University in 1997. He has just completed (2002) a BA in philosophy, which included some creative writing units, at Edith Cowan University. He has had a lifelong interest in non-violence in general and world peace in particular and believes that with the advent of modern nuclear and biological weapons, world peace is not only desirable but is essential if civilisation, or perhaps even the human race itself, is to survive. He worked for peace through 'Scientists Against Nuclear Arms' and 'People for Nuclear Disarmament' and is a strong supporter of the, as yet very imperfect, United Nations Organization. He has a strong interest in world justice and world unity, seeing these as a prerequisite for world peace. He is a member of the Baha'i Faith. Keith also started to write poetry only in his later years and is as yet little published as a poet, but has published poetry in the Edith Cowan University Broadsheet, the Stirling Times,' in Kaleidoscope Twentieth Century and on the 'Peter Cowan Writers Centre' website.    Photo of Keith Oliver by Graham Rolls, 1999. His unpublished monographs are Shades of Grey, Beautiful World Wonderful Life, and Mature Visions. Keith is also highly interested in the environment and the preservation and well being of all of life on earth, and in reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. Many of Keith's poems reflect his passion for peace and justice, although he writes on many other themes, with both serious and humorous poetry, in both traditional forms and in free verse. Keith Oliver's publications include: Insert publications.

Narelle Oliver (D.O.B. - )

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Dowell O'Reilly (1865 - 1923)

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Dr. Shelly O'Reilly (1965 - ) Shelley O'Reilly was born in Tasmania in 1965 and lived there until early 1997; she currently lives in Melbourne. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Tasmania on the Pre-Raphaelite poets. She currently teaches Short Story at Victoria University in Melbourne, works for a private tutoring company and writes study guides for various educational publishers including CAE. She performs poetry and short stories at spoken word events around Melbourne, most recently for The Star Hotel, Word is Out, and Wet, Loud Laughs and is currently MC for the Spread the Word readings run by the Darebin City Council. In 2001-02 she received a $15 000 Emerging Writers' New Work Grant from the Australia Council for fiction for her novel about the first family to live at Cape Otway Lighthouse, Victoria.    Photo of Shelly O'Reilly courtesy of Brandl & Schlesinger, year unknown. Shelly O'Reilly's publications include: Short Prose Fiction: Dying for Beauty (Montpelier Press, 2001).

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Ouyang Yu (1955 - ) Originally from P.R. China, Ouyang Yu holds a doctorate in Australian literature from La Trobe University, Melbourne. He has had 20 books published, covering all fields of literature, from poetry to fiction to non-fiction to literary translation, in both Chinese and English languages, throughout the Chinese and English speaking worlds. His English poems have been widely published in Australia, USA, UK, Canada and New Zealand, and his Chinese poems have been published in Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia and the USA. Songs of the Last Chinese Poet was short-listed for the 1999 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. He is now editing Otherland, the first and the only Chinese-English bilignual literary journal in Australia. In 1999, he was awarded a grant by AsiaLink to be writer in residence at Beijing University, China, as part of AsiaLink Asia Residence Program to write his non-fictional book, On the Smell of an Oily Rag: Notes on the Margins, and his first English novel, The Eastern Slope Chronicle, assisted with a grant from Arts Victoria in 1999.    Photo of Ouyang Yu courtesy of Brandl & Schlesinger, year unknown. He won a grant from Arts Victoria to assist him in the writing of his second novel, Loose: a Wild History, in 2001. In November 2001, Ouyang was awarded a major Australia Council grant for his third novel The English Class. For The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead (1999, PRC), Ouyang Yu was awarded the top literary translation grant in 1998 by the Australia Council, and for Capricornia by Xavier Herbert, he was again awarded the top literary translation grant in 1998 by the Australia Society of Authors. Ouyang's English work has also been translated into Polish, Swedish and Chinese languages. Ouyang Yu was a postdoctoral fellow in the Faculty of Arts, Deakin University (1999-2001) and now is a freelance writer again. Ouyang Yu's publications include: Poetry: Moon over Melbourne and Other Poems, (Papyrus Publishing, 1995), Songs of the Last Chinese Poet, (Wild Peony, 1997), Summer in Melbourne, (Chongqing Publishing House, 1998), The Cunt Sequence, (Otherland Poetry Series, 2002), Two Hearts, Two Tongues and Rain-Coloured Eyes, (Wild Peony Press, 2002); Novel: The Angry Wu Zili, (Otherland Press, 1999), The Eastern Slope Chronicle, (Pluto Press, 2001); Non-Fiction: Representing the Other: Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988, (Xinhua Publishing House, 2000); Translations: His published translations into Chinese include; The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer, (PRC, 1991, new edition 2002), Fly Away Peter by David Malouf, (PRC, 1994), Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson, (PRC, 1996), Bitter Peaches and Plums, (translation from Chinese into English with Bruce Jacobs) (Monash University Press, 1996), The Ancestor Game by Alex Miller, (Taiwan, 1996), The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead, (PRC, 1999), Julia Paradise by Rod Jones, (PRC, 1999), That Eye, the Sky by Tim Winton, (PRC, 1999), Capricornia by Xavier Herbert, (Chonqing Publishing House, 2001), The Whole Woman by Germaine Greer, (Baihua Publishing House, 2000).

Jan Owen (D.O.B. - ) Jan Owen is a South Australian who studied Arts and librarianship and has worked in university and college libraries. She now teaches creative writing from time to time and from place to place, most recently at the 2003 Wollongong Workshops. She has received several Arts SA grants including the Barbara Hanrahan fellowship for 2000 and several Literature Board grants including a current two-year Fellowship. Residencies have taken her to Tasmania, Rome, Malaysia and Paris and she has spoken at national and overseas conferences and festivals such as the American Association for Australian Literary Studies Conference in St Louis, 1998, and the Maastricht International Poetry Nights, 2002. She has read her work and a range of other Australian poetry in Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary, France and the UK and has affectionate memories of Adelaide's Friendly Street poetry readings in the eighties. Awards include: the Jessie Litchfield Prize, the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, the Anne Elder Award, the Mary Gilmore Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Poetry Prize and the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. Her work has been widely anthologized and one of her poems will appear in OUP's forthcoming edition of Seven Centuries of Poetry in English, edited by John Leonard.    Photo of Jan Owen by Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir, 2001. From 2000 to 2002 she was the judge of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal and was one of the judges for the 2001 Newcastle Poetry Prize, acting as co-editor for the resulting anthology, Time's Collision with the Tongue. In February she was appointed to the Arts SA Established Artists and International Peer Assessment Panel. People, nature, art, science, philosophy, other times and places, are subjects often treated in her poetry, which can range from the weirdly speculative to the gently humorous. Present projects include translations of Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal, poems on Hiroshige's woodblock print series "One Hundred Views of Edo", prose poems, parodies, street poems and fiction. Jan Owen's publications include: Poetry: Boy with a Telescope, (Angus & Robertson, 1986), Fingerprints on Light, (Angus & Roberson, 1990) Blackberry Season, (Molonglo Press, 1993), Night Rainbows, (Heinemann, 1994) Timedancing, (Five Islands Press, 2002).

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