MUP is proud to present these authors, amongst many other quality writers in the MUP stable.
Ray Martin
Ray Martin’s lifetime in journalism began as an ABC cadet in Sydney in 1965. After working in Perth and Canberra, he was posted to New York for a decade as the ABC’s North American correspondent. In 1978 he switched to Channel 9 to launch 60 Minutes with George Negus and Ian Leslie, the award-winning program he still reports for today. In between he hosted Midday for a decade, A Current Affair for almost as long and countless network specials, Federal elections and Carols by Candlelight—winning five Gold Logies, more than twenty Silver Logies and an unmatched number of People’s Choice Awards. He was awarded an Order of Australia in 2011 for his journalism, his work with indigenous Australians and his long involvement with charities, as Chairman of the Fred Hollows Foundation and the Australian Indigenous Education Foundation and Patron of the Humpty Dumpty Foundation and the Aboriginal Employment Strategy. His best-selling autobiography, Ray: Stories of My Life was published in 2009. Ray Martin’s Favourites: The stories behind the legends was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2011.
Shannon Bennett
Chef Shannon Bennett has been described as the 'enfant terrible' of Australian haute cuisine. He is the chef and owner of the acclaimed Melbourne restaurant Vue de monde. The Miegunyah Press has published a number of travel guides by Bennett, including Shannon Bennett’s New York and Shannon Bennett’s France in 2011.
Hilary McPhee
Hilary McPhee is a writer and publisher. Wordlines, her selection of recent Australian writing, was published in 2010 after a long stint in the Middle East and Italy. She is now working on a sequel to Other People’s Words, an account of her life in books. Memoirs of a Young Bastard will be published by The Miegunyah Press in 2012
Andrew Robb
Andrew Robb is the Shadow Minister for Finance and Debt Reduction. He was elected to the Federal seat of Goldstein in 2004, and has previously served as Federal Director and Campaign Director of the Liberal Party. He has held positions at PBL and the National Farmers’ Federation, and has been a board member at Sinclair Knight Merz, Garvan Research Foundation, Menzies Research Centre and the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring organisation. In 2003 Andrew was awarded the Office of the Order of Australia and Centenary Medal for his service to agriculture, politics and the community. His memoir, Black Dog Daze: Public Life, Private Demons was published in 2011.
Hazel Rowley
Hazel Rowley was born in London and was educated in England and Australia. She is the author of three previous biographies: Christina Stead: A Biography, a New York Times Best Book; Richard Wright: The Life and Times, a Washington Post Best Book; and Tête-à-Tête: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, which has been translated into twelve languages. Rowley lived in New York City until her death in 2011.
Betty Churcher
Betty Churcher is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London, and holds an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art. She was Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia from 1987 to 1990 and Director of the National Gallery of Australia from 1990 to 1997. The author of several acclaimed books, including The Art of War, Understanding Art and Molvig: The Lost Antipodean. Betty has also been an art critic for the Australian and wrote and presented several television series on art including the Take Five and Hidden Treasures. She holds an Order of Australia and is an Officer of the Order of Australia. Her new book Notebooks is published by The Miegunyah Press in April 2011.
David Rieff
David Rieff is a New York-based journalist and author. Now a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, he has written extensively for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, El Pais, The New Republic, World Affairs, Harper's, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Affairs and The Nation. During the 1990s, he covered conflicts in Africa, the Balkans, and Central Asia. He is the author of eight books, including Slaughterhouse: Bosnia and the Failure of the West and A Bed for the Night: Humanitarianism in Crisis. His memoir of his mother, Susan Sontag's, final illness, Swimming in a Sea of Death, was published in January 2008. His new book Against Remembrance is published by MUP in April 2011.
Mark McKenna
Mark McKenna is one of Australia’s leading historians. A research fellow in History at the University of Sydney, he is the author of several prize winning books, including Looking for Blackfellas’ Point: an Australian History of Place, which won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction and Book of the Year in the 2003 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
His essays and articles have been widely published in Australia and overseas. Seven years in the making, his biography of Manning Clark is his most ambitious project to date. Titled An Eye for Eternity, the biography will be published by MUP in May 2011.
Hetti Perkins
Hetti Perkins is a member of the Eastern Arrernte and Kalkadoon Aboriginal communities. She is the Senior Curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. She has curated major survey exhibitions of Indigenous art, including Australia's representation at the Venice Biennale in 1997, and most recently the Australian Indigenous Art Commission at the Musée du quai Branly in Paris. She edited One Sun One Moon:the most ambitious publication on Australian Indigenous art to date. Hetti is the eldest daughter of Charles Perkins, the esteemed Indigenous activist, and an experienced public spokesperson.
Christine Nixon
Christine Nixon was the first woman in Australia to be appointed a police commissioner, a post she held with Victoria Police from April 2001 to February 2009. Her 30-year police career began in the New South Wales Police Force, where she attained the rank of Assistant Commissioner. Her eight-year tenure as Victoria’s Chief Commissioner was characterised by her tough anti-corruption stance, her frequently acrimonious relationship with the Police Association and her high approval ratings with the Victorian public.
Nixon left Victoria Police to head the Victorian Bushfire Reconstruction and Recovery Authority, a role she held until her resignation in July 2010. She continues in a voluntary advisory role with the authority.
Stephen Sewell
Stephen Sewell is the screenwriter of the award-winning film The Boys, and has won numerous awards for his plays including Three Furies: Scenes from the Life of Francis Bacon. He was also script editor on the film Chopper. Victory Books published his adaptation of the film Animal Kingdom in 2010 and, in August 2011, will release his debut novel, Babylon.
Frank Camorra
MoVida chef and owner Frank Camorra was born in Barcelona and spent his first five years in his parents' hometown of Córdoba in Andalusia, before his parents migrated to Australia.
In 2000, Frank returned to work in Spain and was inspired by both the modern and traditional aspects of Spanish cuisine as well as the dynamic tapas culture, which he thought would translate well to Melbourne’s vibrant CBD.
Returning to Australia, Frank was determined to share his inspiration. In fact, MoVida is named after the art and film movement that flourished in Madrid during Spain’s reawakening.
In 2007 MoVida was awarded ‘Dish of the Year’ at the Age Good Food Guide Awards for the ‘Cecina’. The 2009 Age Good Food Guide Awards were also a success for MoVida, with the restaurant receiving a ‘two hat’ rating and Frank Camorra winning Chef of the Year.
Camorra has since opened three equally successful restaurants: MoVida Next Door, MoVida Aqui and MoVida Terraza. He has also co-authored (with Richard Cornish) two award-winning cookbooks: MoVida and MoVida Rustica. The Miegunyah Press will publish MoVida’s Guide to Barcelona by Frank Camorra and Richard Cornish in August 2011.
Paul Daley
Paul Daley, a journalist of more than two decades’ experience, has worked as a political writer, an investigative reporter, a foreign affairs and defence correspondent, and a feature writer for major Australian newspapers. A former national affairs editor for the now defunct Bulletin magazine, he has also reported from conflict zones in Asia, the South Pacific, Europe and the Middle East. The Canberra-based writer and Fairfax politics columnist is the recipient of the Walkley Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the Paul Lyneham Award for Excellence in Press Gallery Journalism. MUP published his first book Beersheba in 2009, and will release Armageddon: Two Men on a Faded Anzac Trail and Collingwood: A Love Story in 2011.
Tracy Grimshaw
Tracy Grimshaw's television career began in 1981 when she joined the Channel Nine Melbourne newsroom. Her extraordinary 30-year career has included being a newsreader, documentary producer, co-host of Today for nine years and, since 2006, presenter of Channel Nine’s top-rating program, A Current Affair. Victory Books will publish her memoir in 2012.
