Diana Plater is an Australian novelist, non-fiction writer, playwright, journalist and travel writer. Her latest book, Whale Rock, won the Gold award for Popular Literary Fiction in the Global Ebook Awards, 2019.
She has had a long career in journalism, writing for media including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times, The Age, USA Today and other newspapers and online outlets. She was the Travel Editor at Australian Associated Press for several years.
Diana was based in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s during the Sandinista/Contra war and later in New York, where she freelanced for international publications. She is known particularly for her ground-breaking work covering Indigenous and race issues and also writes regularly on the arts, travel and the environment.
She has written a satirical play about Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and Celia Sanchez in Harlem in 1960, Havana, Harlem, as well as several non-fiction books, including the medical self-help book, Taking Control, and chapters in other books, including Many Voices, (National Library, 2002), the official history of the Stolen Generations.
Raging Partners, written with Ollie Smith, was short-listed for a 2001 NSW Premier’s Literary Award.
Diana is presently working on a novel, The Cedar-getter’s Granddaughter, and a musical, Cornelius and Rosalind, with Indigenous musician and songwriter Arnold Smith.
