Underfoot and downtrodden? Actually the writers — with their metal plaques embedded along the walkway around Sydney's Circular Quay — are being honored, and their lives and works celebrated, on the Sydney Writers Walk. You will find these plaques from around the International Passenger Terminal on West Circular Quay, down to the walkway between the ferry jetties and the train station, and all the way to the side of the Sydney Opera House forecourt on East Circular Quay.
The writers represented on Writers Walk include not only Australians but also those who lived in, or visited, Australia, such as D H Lawrence, Rudyard Kipling and Mark Twain.
The plaques, arranged here in alphabetical order by surname, provide interesting, informative reading in capsule form. Photographs of the Writers Walk plaques were taken by Larry Rivera.
- Thea AstleyFour-times winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award
- Faith BandlerShe wrote of her father brought to Australia by slave traders
- C E W BeanWorld War I historian and war correspondent
- Christopher BrennanPoet, critic, scholar, a prominent figure in Sydney Bohemian circles
- Peter CareyA winner of every major award in Australian literature
- Joseph ConradPolish-born English novelist
- Peter CorrisHistorian, journalist, creator of Cliff Hardy
- Eleanor DarkDark trilogy a light on European settlement
- Charles DarwinBritish naturalist after whom the Northern Territory capital was named
- C J DennisHe's sometimes called the "laureate of the larrikin"
- Arthur Conan DoyleSpiritualist and Sherlock Holmes creator
- Umberto EcoUmberto Eco
- Graphic Index
- Text Index