Danielle Clode
Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary nonfiction, history and children's books.[1][2] She is an associate professor of creative writing at Flinders University.
Early life and education[edit]
Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence.[3]
Clode received her B.A. at the University of Adelaide in 1989 and her D.Phil. in zoology at the University of Oxford in 1993.[4]
Career[edit]
Clode worked at Melbourne University and the Victorian Writers Centre.[4] In 2011, she moved to Flinders University.[4]
She has written reviews for Australian Book Review.[5]
Awards and honors[edit]
Clode was a Rhodes Scholar in 1990.[4] She has received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007[1] and a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2016.[4]
Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.[6] In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World was shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Nonfiction Award.[7]
Bibliography[edit]
- Koala: A Natural History and Uncertain Future, W. W. Norton & Company 2023.
- Koala, Black Inc 2022.
- John Long: Fossil Hunter, Wild Dingo Press 2021.
- In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World, Pan Macmillan 2020.
- First Wave: Exploring early coastal contact history in Australia (ed. with Gillian Dooley), Wakefield Press 2019.
- The Wasp and the Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Edith Coleman, Picador 2018.
- From Dinosaurs to Diprotodons: Australia's Amazing Fossils, Museums Victoria 2018.
- Killers In Eden: The True Story Of Killer Whales And Their Remarkable Partnership With The Whalers Of Twofold Bay, Museum Victoria 2011.
- Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea, Museums Victoria 2015.
- A Future in Flames, Ligature 2010.
- Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia, Museum Victoria 2009.
- Voyages To The South Seas: In Search Of Terres Australes, Ligature 2007.
- Continent of Curiosities: A Journey Through Australian Natural History, Cambridge University Press 2007.
- As If for a Thousand Years, Victorian Environmental Assessment Council 2006.
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Danielle Clode". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 July 2016, retrieved 20 March 2017
- ^ "Danielle Clode - Booked Out Speakers Agency". Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
- ^ a b c d e "Danielle Clode". Flinders University. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
- ^ "Danielle Clode". Australian Book Review.
- ^ "The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode". State Library of NSW. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
- ^ "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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