Ursula Dubosarsky

Novelist, Author

1961 –

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Who is Ursula Dubosarsky?

Ursula Dubosarsky is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and voice of both clarity and ambiguity. She has won nine national literary prizes, including five New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, more than any other writer in the Awards' 30 year history.

She is the author of illustrated books and novels, and also three works of non-fiction about the English language, grammar and etymology for children, featuring a comically enthusiastic character known as "The Word Spy". These "Word Spy" books, illustrated by Tohby Riddle, have won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges' Award and Book of the Year Award. In the USA and Canada "The Word Spy" is published under the title "The Word Snoop."

She is the third child of Peter Coleman and Verna Susannah Coleman.

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Born
Jun 25, 1961
Sydney
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  • Australia
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Education
  • Macquarie University
  • University of Sydney

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on July 23, 2013

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