Larry Buttrose

Larry Philip Buttrose (born 16 December 1952) is an Australian writer, journalist and academic. He is the ghostwriter of the Saroo Brierley memoir A Long Way Home (adapted for the screen as the major international feature film Lion). He is also the author of the novels The Maze of the Muse and Sweet Sentence, and the travel books The King Neptune Day & Night Club, and Cafe Royale (also published as The Blue Man).

For the stage he co-wrote the hit musical Hot Shoe Shuffle, as well Kurtz, his stage adaptation of Heart of Darkness, and a stage adaptation of Don Quixote. For the screen he co-wrote the feature Gino and the feature documentary Movietone Memories, and is currently working on the screenplay for Hicks, about the life of Australian inmate in Guantanamo, David Hicks. He teaches Screenwriting at New York University’s Sydney campus at The Rocks.

Buttrose was born in Adelaide, South Australia, into a working class Anglo-Celtic family. He had a love of books and reading from childhood, and began writing poetry in his early teens.

He was educated at Saint Ignatius College and Adelaide University, and at the age of 17 co-founded the poetry magazine Dharma (later titled Real Poetry) with his then partner Donna Maegraith and friend Stephen Measday. While at university he also trained as a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Commission (now Corporation), and after graduating he travelled extensively working as a freelance journalist. He has lived in London, with stints in Bath and New York, and gained his PhD from the University of Adelaide in 2011. He lives in the Blue Mountains outside Sydney with his partner Belle and their young daughter Ada. He also has a teenage son, Jack.

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