Rosanne Hawke

Rosanne Hawke (born 1953) is an award winning Australian author (from South Australia.) who has written over 25 books for young adults and children. She also teaches tertiary level Creative Writing (especially Writing for Children) at Tabor Adelaide, and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. She lives in a little old Cornish farmhouse near Kapunda, South Australia. Rosanne has spent significant time researching Cornish identity in Australian children's literature and enjoys writing about culture, faith, relationships, displacement and belonging, music and cats.

Contents

• Author rosanne hawke discusses shahana through my eyes
• Shahana through my eyes by rosanne hawke book trailer
• Awardshonours
• References

Her first short story was published in the Moura State School magazine in 1967 when she was in grade 8. At 14 years, She moved back to South Australia and attended Gawler High School where she won an Arts Scholarship to complete Years 11 & 12. She started a romantic novel when she was 17 but burnt it later. It wasn't until Rosanne was working in the Middle East and Pakistan, teaching ESL and bringing up kids that she started to write seriously.

Rosanne was shortlisted for the Australian Aurealis Awards and was a winner in the Kanga Awards Focus List. Some of her best recognised books include Kelsey and the Quest of the Porcelain Doll (a Children’s Book Council of Australia Notable Book), Across the Creek, (winner of the Cornish 2005 Holyer an Gof Award for Children’s Literature) and Taj and the Great Camel Trek (2012 Adelaide Festival Children’s Book Award). She has been awarded a Tabor Adelaide Award for Teaching Excellence, 2009 Australian Learning and Teaching Council, “Citation For Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning”, she won Carclew Fellowship at SA Writers Week 2006, is the recipient of the 2014 Nance Donkin Award, and is officially a Bard of Cornwall.

Awards/honours

Awarded the Carclew Fellowship, at Writers Week, Adelaide 2008.

Awarded 'Bard of Cornwall' in 2006

'Mustara' Shortlisted in NSW Premier Literary Awards 2007; and CBCA Notable Book.

'Across the Creek'- winner of the children's section of the Cornish 2005 Holyer and Gof Trophy.

'Soraya the Storyteller'- shortlisted in 2005 Australian Children's Book Awards and in SA Festival Awards; commended in The Victorian Premier's Awards; chosen as One Book One Salisbury in the Salisbury Writers' Festival.

'Wolfchild' - Commendation in the open Cornish 2004 Hoyler and Gof Trophy, shortlisted for Aurealis Awards 2003, Australian Children's Book Council Notable Book, nominated for Kanga Awards.

'Sailmaker' - Australian Children's Book Council Notable Book, and shortlisted for Kanga Awards, 2003.

'The Keeper' - chosen for The Adelaide Collection.

'Re-entry' - Australian Children's Book Council Notable Book 1996, nominated for CROWS Award 1996.

'Jihad' - shortlisted for Christian Schools Book Award 1999.

Arts SA literature grant 2007.

Asialink Fellowship to Pakistan 2006

May Gibbs Fellowship 2004

Varuna Fellowship 2000

ARTSA Emerging Artists Grants 1999 and 1996

Out of time funds granted for Literary Trip to Cornwall by Country Arts SA and Arts SA 2005.