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Tony Birch is an Australian author, academic, and social commentator. He was born in 1957 in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of several books, including Blood (2011), Ghost River (2015), and The White Girl (2020). He has also written for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Guardian. Birch is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at Victoria University, and a research fellow at the Koori Centre at the University of Sydney. He is a member of the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nation. Birch has been awarded numerous awards for his writing, including the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, the NSW Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing, and the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Birch is married and has two children. His net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

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Age 66 years old
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Born , 1957
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Birthplace Melbourne, Victoria
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2017

In 2017 he became the first Indigenous writer to win the Patrick White Award.

2015

He became the first recipient of the Dr Bruce McGuinness Indigenous Research Fellowship at Victoria University in Melbourne in June 2015 and as of June 2018 is still a research fellow there. His work involves academic research, creative writing projects, student mentoring, lecturing and community engagement.

2003

After spending a decade as a firefighter, Birch attended Melbourne university as a mature student when he was 30 years old. In 2003 he was awarded the Chancellor's Medal for the best PhD in Arts.

1957

Tony Birch (born 1957) is a renowned Indigenous 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.

1890

Birch's maternal great-grandfather was an Afghani from the Punjab, who migrated to Australia in 1890, who had to get exemption from the Immigration Restriction Act 1901 to take his wife home to meet the family. He also has Barbadian convict (James "Prince" Moodie, transported to Tasmania for 14 years for "disobedience") and Indigenous heritage.

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