Suzanne Falkiner was born in Sydney and grew up on a sheep station in central western New South Wales. After graduating with a BA in literature and philosophy at the University of New South Wales she spent several years travelling in Asia, Europe and South America, and has lived in Paris, Umbria, and New York, where she completed postgraduate courses in Fiction, Non Fiction and Editing at Columbia University.
After working in various book and magazine publishing jobs in Sydney, she started her own imprint, Valadon Publishing. From the mid 1980s she has combined being a full time writer with book reviewing, travel and other journalism, and freelance editing, including writing reader’s reports and detailed manuscript assessments. In 2005 she was awarded a Doctorate of Creative Arts at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Other Publications:
She has contributed short stories to anthologies COAST TO COAST, Angus and Robertson 1986 (ed. Kerryn Goldsworthy) and HOME AND AWAY, Penguin 1987 (ed. Rosemary Creswell). Extracts from her writing have been published in COUNTRY CHILDHOODS, UQP 1992 (ed. Geoffrey Dutton) and THE OXFORD BOOK OF AUSTRALIAN TRAVEL WRITING, Pesman, Walker and White, Oxford University Press 1996, and SYDNEY: AN OXFORD ANTHOLOGY by Richard Hall, Oxford University Press 2000.She has contributed book reviews, travel stories and articles to publications including:
- SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
- THE AUSTRALIAN
- THE CANBERRA TIMES
- THE FINANCIAL REVIEW COLOUR MAGAZINE
- TIMES ON SUNDAY
- BULLETIN
- HARPERS BAZAAR
- POL
- SYDNEY REVIEW
- AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW
- THE AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR
- AUSTRALIA ART MONTHLY
- IBM QUARTERLY
- NEW WOMAN
- SYDNEY CALENDAR MAGAZINE
- VOICES
- MERIAN (travel magazine, Germany)
Books produced and edited through Valadon Publishing:
- HADDON RIG: THE FIRST HUNDRED YEARS (text by Suzanne Falkiner) 1981, pastoral history.
- LESLIE WILKINSON: A PRACTICAL IDEALIST (editor) Contributions by Lloyd Rees, David Wilkinson, Peter Johnson, George Molnar, photographs by Max Dupain, 1982, architectural study.
- TOWARDS AN AUSTRALIAN GARDEN by Howard Tanner (photographs by Richard Stringer) 1983, study of the development of the Australian garden.
- AFTER THE TENT EMBASSY by Marcia Langton. 1983. Images of recent Aboriginal political history by 29 photographers.
