Ramona Koval

Who is Ramona Koval?

Ramona Koval is an Australian broadcaster, writer and journalist.

Her parents were Yiddish-speaking survivors of the Holocaust who arrived in Melbourne from Poland in 1950.

Koval is known for her extended and in-depth interviews with significant writers. She has had a long and varied career on air in Australia on Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio. She was presenter of the Radio National Drive program and the morning presenter on Melbourne's 3LO through the late 1980s and early 1990s and became a fixture in the literary world after joining Radio National's Books and Writing in 1994. Ramona presented The Book Show, introduced by Radio National in 2006 to consolidate its various book programs. The Book Show was the world's only daily radio program devoted to the books, writing and publishing.

She left the ABC in October 2011 to pursue her own writing.