Roger McDonald
Roger McDonald was born in rural New South Wales in 1941 and educated at country schools and in Sydney. His writing career began with poetry, moved on to fiction, and encompasses travel writing, essays, and screenplays. His novel 1915 won the Age Book of the Year Award and the South Australian Government Biennial Prize for Literature. His account of working as a shearers’ cook in outback Australia, Shearers’ Motel, won the National Book Council Banjo Award for Nonfiction, Australia’s equivalent of the National Book Award.
