Tony Birch

Tony Birch (born 1957) is an Aboriginal Australian author, academic and activist. He regularly appears on ABC local radio and Radio National shows and at writers’ festivals. He was head of the honours programme for creative writing at the University of Melbourne before becoming the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015.

In 2017, he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award. His 2019 novel ''The White Girl'' won the 2020 Indigenous Writers' Prize in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. Provided by Wikipedia