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Bob Ellis (Author)
Bob Ellis is the author of more than eighteen books. His most recent work is And So It Went: Night Thoughts in a Year of Change and other recent titles include the bestselling Goodbye Jerusalem, Goodbye Babylon and First Abolish the Customer.
He co-wrote the classic films Newsfront, Fatty Finn and Goodbye Paradise. He is the co-author of the musical play The Legend of King O'Malley, the television miniseries The True Believers and the Ben Chifley play A Local Man. He wrote and directed the feature films Unfinished Business and The Nostradamus Kid and wrote and appeared in the documentary Bastards from the Bush, about his long friendship with the poet Les Murray. His work for film and stage has won numerous nominations and awards for writing and direction, including three Premier's Literary Awards.
His essays and articles for HQ, Encore Magazine, The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Canberra Times, the Courier-Mail and others have generated both enraged and enthusiastic letters to the editors. In 2002 he was voted Columnist of the Year by the Magazine Publishers Association.
Ellis has had a long and close involvement with politics, covering as a journalist twenty-four campaigns in Australia, the UK and the US, and writing speeches or slogans for Kim Beazley, Bob Carr, Mike Rann, Nathan Rees and others.
Profile was last updated on 21 May 2009.
Available Titles:
And So It Went
Adult |
Paperback |
Viking |
4 May 2009 |
$35.00 |
ISBN-13: 9780670072460
The Capitalism Delusion
Adult |
Paperback |
Penguin |
28 Sep 2009 |
$24.95 |
ISBN-13: 9780143203360
