AUTHOR

Meme McDonald began her career directing theatre and performing in the street theatre group The Essendon Policewomen’s Marching Band. She turned to writing books when fire-eating became a mouthful, and motherhood a hard act to juggle. 

Meme has published nine books in a variety of genres. The books have won six major literary awards including Book of the Year for THE BINNA BINNA MAN (Allen & Unwin 1999) at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2000. Her latest book, LOVE LIKE WATER (Allen & Unwin 2007), is a novel about love in a desert.

Two prize-winning books Meme co-wrote with Aboriginal storyteller, Boori Monty Pryor, have been adapted for theatre. MY GIRRAGUNDJI (Allen & Unwin 1998) had two seasons touring nationally with The Bell Shakespeare Company, and NJUNJUL THE SUN (Allen & Unwin 2002) - which received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction - was adapted by Kooemba Djarra Theatre Company and produced with QPAC in Brisbane.