Nigel Krauth
Nigel Krauth is a multi-award winning novelist whose career as an academic has been punctuated by periods as a full-time writer. He has won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the New South Wales State Literary Award for Fiction (The Christina Stead Prize), and was shortlisted for The Victorian Premier's Literary Award (twice) and the Age Book of the Year Award. His Research Masters degree focused on Shakespeare's major tragedies, and his PhD investigated imaginative writing set in Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific.