Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton has received worldwide acclaim and many awards for his best-selling novels Boy Swallows Universe (2018) and All Our Shimmering Skies (2020). His novels have won and been shortlisted for numerous literary and industry awards including theĀ Indie Book Awards, the International Dublin Literary Award and the Queensland Literary Awards.

He is also a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. In 2011, he was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland journalism.