New authors added to Who Else Writes Like

Thirty new authors have been added to Who Else Writes Like Online including two Australians, Malcolm Knox and Alex Miller.

Malcolm Knox is the author of three novels, Summerland, A Private Man, and most recently, Jamaica. While literary editor at the Sydney Morning Herald, Malcolm Knox broke the story of hoax-author Norma Khouri, for which he won a Walkley Award. He is also the author of Secrets of the Jury Room, a non-fiction account of his experience as a juror, and a history of the jury system.


Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia’s premier literary prize the Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 1993 for The Ancestor Game. His fifth novel, Conditions of Faith, won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the 2001 New South Wales Premier’s Awards. In 2011 he won this award a second time with his recent novel Lovesong. Lovesong also won the People’s Choice Award in the NSW Premier’s Awards, the Age Book of the Year Award, and the Age Fiction Prize for 2011. In 2007 Landscape of Farewell was published to wide critical acclaim and in 2008 Alex Miller won the Chinese Annual Foreign Novels 21st Century Award for Best Novel and the Manning Clark Medal for an outstanding contribution to Australian cultural life.

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Other new authors added are

BLACK, Sean
BRISCOE, Joanna
BRUCE, Alison
CARTER, Chris
CARVER, Tania
CASEY, Jane
CHANCE, Rebecca
DAVIES, Caitlin
DONALD, Angus
DOUGLAS, Louise
DRAKE, Nick
FLYNN, Gillian
FRANKLIN, Tom
GLASS, Julia
GRAN, Sara
HANNAH, Kristin
JAHN, Ryan David
LAWRENSON, Deborah
LEAVITT, Caroline
LEVIEN, David
MONROE, Aly
PETERSON, Alice
RASH, Ron
VIDA, Vendela
WAGSTAFF, Sasha
WALSH, Helen