Welcome!
I acknowledge the Cadigal and Wangal clans of the Eora nation, on whose land I live and work. This unceded land always was and always will be Aboriginal.
Keep well, and keep reading.
Nadia
"Nadia Wheatley, long admired for versatility and skill is also a seriously serious writer. Bold, too." - Ruth Park, Australian
Over a career of 40 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 (Text Publishing 2018), winner of the 2019 Waverley Nib Award, and Radicals — Remembering the Sixties, co-written with Meredith Burgmann (NewSouth, 2021). In her role as Charmian Clift’s biographer, Nadia has edited Sneaky Little Revolutions — The Selected Essays of Charmian Clift (NewSouth 2022) and The End of the Morning (NewSouth 2024).
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'.
NEWS
UPCOMING EVENTS IN MAY AND JUNE
There is comprehensive information (including booking links) about these on the Events page but here are the dates so you can make your bookings.I know a lot of people missed out last year, so I suggest you get in quickly:
Sunday 12 May 2024, 3.30 for 4.00 pm until 5.30 pm: Charmian Clift’s Kalymnos. Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe. 02 9660 2333
After a powerpoint talk about Clift’s Kalymnos and her book Mermaid Singing, there will be the launch of the program for the Charmian Clift Readers and Writers Workshop that I will be leading on the island in the spring of 2025.
Free. Refreshments provided. RSVP necessary. book online at Gleebooks Events. https://www.gleebooks.com.au/event/nadia-wheatley-charmian-clifts-kalymnos/
Wednesday 22 May 2024, 2.00 pm to 4.00 pm Literary Legends — Clift, Hazzard, Harrower. Sydney Writers Festival event. State Library of New South Wales, The Library Auditorium LG1. Macquarie Building, 1 Shakespeare Place, Sydney 2000
Tickets $20.00. Book online at SWF website Or call the box office on 02 9256 4200
https://www.swf.org.au/program/season-2024/literary-legends
Saturday, 1 June 2024, 2:00 pm 4:00 pm. Charmian Clift’s Kiama. A Friends of Kiama Library and Kiama & District Historical Society joint event. Kiama Library, 7 Railway Pde Kiama.
Tickets go on sale 1 May. Call 02 4233 1133
Thursday 27 June 2024, 5.45 pm to 7.00 pm Charmian Clift’s The End of the Morning Five Dock Library, Level 1, 4-12 Garfield St, Five Dock 2046
Free. Bookings to the library: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/author-talk-nadia-wheatley-on-the-end-of-the-morning-by-charmain-clift-tickets-856660894797
WORK IN PROGRESS and FORTHCOMING
Strange New World —Belsen’s First Year of Freedom: 350-page book. Described by Dr Thomas Rahe, the recently-retired Director of the Bergen-Belsen Gedenkstätte (Memorial) as ‘a huge step forward in the historiography of Bergen-Belsen’. Currently seeking publication in the UK.
Nadia Wheatley, ed., Charmian Clift, The End of the Morning, NewSouth, forthcoming 1 April 2024. This comprises Clift’s previously unpublished autobiographical novel (which stands alone as a novella), and thirty essays.
RECENT JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
‘Charmian Clift: Living the rich full life’, Antipodes (Melbourne), October 2023
‘Martin Johnston, Man of Two Nations’, Antipodes (Melbourne), October 2023
‘Somewhere other than Hydra? An alternative history of the Johnstons in Greece’, Hydra Book Club Journal, October 2023
‘Celebrating Charmian Clift’s Centenary’, Spectrum, August 2023
‘A Greek Odyssey’, The Good Weekend, October 2022
FOR CHARMIAN CLIFT FANS
30 August 2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of author Charmian Clift. www.charmianclift.com.au
See my article in the SMH and Age:
And I recently did this radio interview about Clift’s essays, Sneaky Little Revolutions, for Media Northern Beaches:
For copies of THE LIFE AND MYTH OF CHARMIAN CLIFT and SNEAKY LITTLE REVOLUTIONS, The Selected Essays of Charmian Clift, please go to the Book Shop on this website.
You can also read a number of articles in the Clift & Johnston section of this website, or listen to this radio interview I did with Phillip Adams from the island of Kalymnos (site of MERMAID SINGING).
FOR READERS OF MY BOOKS FOR CHILDREN:
A Banner Bold is back in print. Plenty of stock available from my Book Shop, or from your usual book supplier.
MY PLACE ZOOM WEBINAR. Thanks to 22,400 young readers and their teachers who attended my My Place Zoom Webinar on 25 August. And thanks to the the Australian Children’s Television Foundation and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image for organising this annual event. If you would like to see the edited recording, here is link:
