Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is an Australian author of literary nonfiction, 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]

Clode studied politics and psychology at University of Adelaide before completing 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]

Career

Clode is an interdisciplinary scholar who has published widely on conservation biology, psychology, mental health and addiction, fire preparation, history and creative writing. She currently reviews for the Australian Book Review, and her essays and short stories have appeared in Cosmos, Australian Book Review, The Conversation and anthologies.

Clode is a regular speaker at writing festivals and on radio shows, and has featured on international podcasts such as Good Reading Magazine and Yale Podcast Network. She also appeared in a documentary based on her book Killers in Eden, produced and narrated a documentary based on Voyages to the South Seas, and produced a radio play based on In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World.

Distinctions

Clode has received the Rhodes Scholarship (South Australia, 1990), the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction 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] In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World was shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Nonfiction Award.[6]

Bibliography

Some of her books are:[7]

References
  1. "Danielle Clode". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  2. Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 July 2016, retrieved 20 March 2017
  3. "Danielle Clode - Booked Out Speakers Agency". Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  4. "Flinders University". www.flinders.edu.au. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  5. "The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode". State Library of NSW. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  6. "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  7. "Danielle Clode". goodreads.com. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
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