Nicolas Rothwell Biography – Nicolas Rothwell Wiki
Nicolas Rothwell is an author, journalist, and Northern Australia correspondent for The Australian newspaper. He is also an award-winning writer with several works of non-fiction to his name. He undertook his studies at a boarding school in Switzerland and France and later graduated from the University of Oxford. In the 1980s and early 1990s he was a foreign correspondent for The Australian and reported from the Americas, the Pacific, and Western and Eastern Europe, lately during the Yugoslav conflict. Burned out by the latter pandemonium, in the 1990s he sought out a posting in Australia, again for The Australian newspaper. He has lived in Darwin, Northern Territory, since that time. Most of his articles can be found in The Australian newspaper. Some of the best are collected in his book Another Country (2007). He won a Walkley Award in 2006 for his journalistic coverage of Indigenous Affairs. He has been critical of extensive welfare payments to Indigenous Australians.
Other than his 1999 novel, Heaven and Earth, his books are listed as non-fiction, but always highly personalized and offering romantic accounts of northern Australia. He combines copious literary references with personal observations. His book, Wings of the Kite-Hawk (2003) was widely praised for its accounts of the eccentric people and timeless landscapes of the region, as he followed the footsteps of explorers Leichhardt, Sturt, Giles, and Strehlow. Another Country (2007) is a compilation of Rothwell’s journalism, consisting of shorter accounts of meeting “mystics and artists, explorers and healers”. It was deemed to have been finely written but sometimes detached in style. Journeys to the Interior is about “death, friendship, travel and art”.
In The Red Highway, he brings forth his own path, when he says “people who come to northern Australia come here because they are lost, or searching, or on the edge of life, and silence and they are chasing after some kind of pattern, some redemption they think might be lurking, on the line of the horizon, out in the faint, receding perspectives of the bush”. The Red Highway is a “sandy, dusty realm”, a landscape which has an “interwoven, interconnected quality: a musical aspect – a repetition, and variation: the way the light filtering through the stringy-barks echoes, and speaks to the changes in the landforms; the way shape and pattern are multiplied at different levels so that the branching arms of a river delta seem like the veins of a leaf …”. He has several other books he has authored, audio, video, and even articles under his name.
Nicolas Rothwell Age
He was born in 1950 in New York, New York, United States.
Nicolas Rothwell Wife
Currently, his domestic partner is an indigenous activist and politician, Alison Anderson. Prior to being with Alison, in the past, he had been in a relationship with the late Australian singer Anita Lane.
Nicolas Rothwell Family
His parents are of Czech and Australian descent. His father Bruce Rothwell was a well-known journalist, and the family lived in Australia, Washington DC, and New York among other places.
