Rosie Scott

Dr Rosie Scott is an internationally published novelist who has also worked in many other fields centring around human rights and social justice.

Her latest novel Faith Singer was included in an international list of '50 Essential Reads by living Writers' compiled by the Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival. The other Australian writers were Tim Winton and J. Coetzee.

A successful literary career which includes the publication in Australia and internationally of nine critically-acclaimed books -novels, poetry, short stories and essays all of which have been anthologised extensively in Australia and internationally.

Her books have been finalists in most major book awards including Premiers Fiction Award, Banjo Patterson, National Book Awards, New Zealand National Book Awards.

Her national award-winning play was later made into a movie which won five international awards in Japan and France.

Served on the Committee of Management and on the Executive of the Australian Society of Authors for ten years, during which time she was elected Chair.

Appointed to the Permanent Council of the Australian Society of Authors.

Served on the Sydney PEN committee for eight years, established and chaired Writers in Detention Committee with Tom Keneally,with whom she edited an anthology of refugee writing, and was elected Vice President of Sydney PEN.

Nomination for a Human Rights Medal nomination together with Tom Keneally for their work on detained writers.R

Recipient of the Sydney PEN Award for her 'outstanding support and commitment to the values, ideas and aims of PEN'.

See Wikipedia entry and web site www.thesecondevolution.com/rosie