Danielle Clode
Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary non-fiction, history and children's books.[1][2]
Life[]
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]
Career[]
Clode studied politics and psychology at University of Adelaide before completed her PhD in Zoology as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University.[4] She has taught creative and professional writing at universities across Australia and is an associate at Melbourne University and Flinders University.[4]
Distinctions[]
Clode has received the Rhodes Scholarship (South Australia, 1990), the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction in 2007,[1] a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2017 and was short-listed for a Children’s Book Council Award in 2010 and 2016[3] as well as numerous writing fellowships. Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award.[5]
Bibliography[]
Some of her books are:[6]
- 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
- A Future in Flames
- Prehistoric Giants: The Megafauna of Australia
- Voyages To The South Seas: In Search Of Terres Australes
- Prehistoric Marine Life in Australia's Inland Sea
- Continent of Curiosities: A Journey Through Australian Natural History
- As If for a Thousand Years
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Danielle Clode". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ^ Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2016-07-15, retrieved 2017-03-20
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Danielle Clode - Booked Out Speakers Agency". Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Flinders University". www.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
- ^ "The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode". State Library of NSW. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-06-26.
- ^ "Danielle Clode". goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
External links[]
- Australian writers
- Australian zoologists
- Living people