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Errol Broome
Errol Broome grew up in Perth where she studied Arts at The University of Western Australia and worked as a journalist at the West Australian. She now lives in Melbourne. She is Literary Patron of the Society of Women Writers Victoria, and spends much time keeping her garden alive. An award-winning author, her books for children have been published widely overseas and translated into several languages.
Awards
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award 1992
Notable Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 1998
Honour Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2001
Seven Notable Books, Children’s Book Council of Australia
Notable Book, Children’s Book Council of Australia, 2004
Books available from Fremantle Press
- My Grandad Knew Phar Lap 2006
- Judas Donkey, The 2003
- Away with the Birds 2000
- Tough Luck 1998
Other Books by this Author
- Nightwatch
- Fly With Me
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things
