Adrian Caesar is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n author and poet.

Caesar was born in Manchester, United Kingdom

Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...

 and emigrated to Australia in 1982. He studied at Reading University and has held appointments at various Australian universities, including the Australian National University

Australian National University

The Australian National University is a teaching and research university located in the Australian capital, Canberra.As of 2009, the ANU employs 3,945 administrative staff who teach approximately 10,000 undergraduates, and 7,500 postgraduate students...

 and the University of New South Wales

University of New South Wales

The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...

' School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Writing

Caesar is the author of several books, including the prize-winning non-fiction novel

Non-fiction novel

The non-fiction novel is a literary genre which, broadly speaking, depicts real historical figures and actual events narrated woven together with fictitious allegations and using the storytelling techniques of fiction. The non-fiction novel is an otherwise loosely-defined and flexible genre...

 The White based on the Antarctic exploration of Robert F. Scott

Robert Falcon Scott

Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...

 and Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson

Sir Douglas Mawson, OBE, FRS, FAA was an Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and Academic. Along with Roald Amundsen, Robert Falcon Scott, and Ernest Shackleton, Mawson was a key expedition leader during the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.-Early work:He was appointed geologist to an...

 from 1911 to 1913. His poems have been widely published and his 2005 poetry collection High Wire was shortlisted for the 2007 Judith Wright Prize

Judith Wright Prize

The Judith Wright Prize is awarded annually as part of the Arts ACT Poetry Prize for a book of poems published the previous year in book form by an Australian author.The prize currently comes with a $10,000 cash award.-2009:...

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Novels

• The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911-1913 (1999)

Collected poetry

• Hunger Games (1996)
• Life Sentences (1998)
• The June Fireworks: New and Selected Poems (2001)
• High Wire (2005)

Non Fiction

• Dividing Lines: Poetry, Class and ideology in the 1930s (1991)
• Taking it Like a Man: Suffering, Sexuality and the War Poets (1993)
• Kenneth Slessor (1995)

Awards

The White: Last Days in the Antarctic Journeys of Scott and Mawson 1911–1913

• 2000 Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
  The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-fiction
  The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction is a component of the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award and is valued at A$30,000. Most Australian state premiers present annual Australian literary awards to promote Australian writing in all its forms. The award is named after Nettie Palmer."This...
  
  
• 2000 ACT Book of the Year