Nicholas Hasluck
Nicholas Hasluck was born in Canberra in 1942. He studied
law at the University of Western Australia and later at the University
of Oxford. While practising law in Perth, he completed ten works of fiction
including The Bellarmine Jug, which won The Age Book of the Year
Award in 1984, and The Country Without Music, a joint winner
with Tim Winton's Cloudstreet of the WA Premier's Prize for fiction
in 1991.
In addition to these works, Nicholas Hasluck is well-known as a poet and
has also written three books of essays including The Legal Labyrinth.
He was Deputy Chair of the Australia Council from 1978 to 1984, a member
of the Committee of Management of the Australian Society of Authors for
many years, and served as Chair of the Literature Board of the Australia
Council from 1998 to 2001. He was made a member of the Order of Australia
for his services to literature. Nicholas is presently Chair of The Commonwealth Writers Prize.
