Tony Hughes-d'Aeth

Tony Hughes-d’Aeth is the Chair of Australian Literature at the University of Western Australia and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. His books include Like Nothing on this Earth: A Literary History of the Wheatbelt (UWAP, 2017), which won the Walter McRae Russell Prize for Australian literary scholarship, and Paper Nation: The Story of the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia (MUP, 2001), which won the Ernest Scott and WK Hancock prizes for Australian history. Tony is also the Director of the Westerly Centre, which publishes Westerly Magazine, a literary journal founded in 1956 and is the Chair of the Publishing Board for UWA Publishing.

Affiliation

University of Western Australia

Tony Hughes-d'Aeth