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Anita Heiss
Dr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud ...view moreDr Anita Heiss is an internationally published, award-winning author of 23 books; non-fiction, historical fiction, commercial women’s fiction and children’s novels. She is a proud member of the Wiradyuri Nation of central New South Wales, an Ambassador for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation and the GO Foundation, and Professor of Communications at the University of Queensland. Anita is also the Publisher at Large of Bundyi, an imprint of Simon & Schuster cultivating First Nations talent, and a board member of the National Justice Project and Circa Contemporary Circus. As an artist in residence at La Boite Theatre, she adapted her novel Tiddas for the stage. It premiered at the 2022 Brisbane Festival and was produced by Belvoir St for the Sydney Festival in 2024.
Her novel, Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray, about the Great Flood of Gundagai, won the 2022 NSW Premier’s Indigenous Writers' Prize and was shortlisted for the 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize and the 2022 ABIA Awards. Anita’s first children’s picture book is Bidhi Galing (Big Rain), also about the Great Flood of Gundagai. Anita enjoys running, eating chocolate and being a creative disruptor.view less
Books by Anita Heiss
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams Not Meeting Mr Right Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Intervention: An Anthology Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kicking Goals with Goodesy and Magic Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsManhattan Dreaming Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Avoiding Mr Right Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Paris Dreaming Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Audiobooks by Anita Heiss
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray: River of Dreams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not Meeting Mr Right Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Barbed Wire And Cherry Blossoms Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Avoiding Mr Right Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5