Ursula Dubosarsky

Ursula Dubosarsky
Dubosarsky in 2000
Dubosarsky in 2000
Born1961
Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationWriter for children and young adults
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1989-

Ursula Dubosarsky (born Ursula Coleman; 1961 in Sydney, Australia) is an Australian writer of fiction and non-fiction for children and young adults, whose work is characterised by a child's vision and comic voice of both clarity and ambiguity.[1]

She is the third child of Peter Coleman and Verna Susannah Coleman. She was named after the character of Ursula Brangwen in the 1915 novel The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence. She attended Lindfield, Hunter's Hill and Chatswood Primary Schools, SCEGGS Darlinghurst, then studied at Sydney University and later Macquarie University. She is an Honorary Associate in the Department of English at Macquarie University[2] and has taught courses in children's literature at Sydney University and the University of Technology, Sydney.[3] She is a currently a member of the Library Council of New South Wales.[4]

  1. ^ The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature (2006) edited by Jack Zipes
  2. ^ "Our people". Macquarie University. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  3. ^ "Department of English". The University of Sydney. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  4. ^ "Library Council". 6 July 2015.