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Susanne Gervay is an Australian author published in Australia and internationally. Her younger fiction in the ''I Am Jack'' series are rites-of-passage books focusing on school bullying reaching adults and children. The first instalment has been adapted into a play by the award-winning Monkey Baa Theatre for Young People. ''I Am Jack'' is the first of four books including ''Super Jack'', ''Always Jack'' and ''Being Jack''. Her powerful realistic young adult literature includes ''Butterflies'', ''The Cave'' and ''That's Why I Wrote This Song'' which is a collaborative work with her teenage daughter Tory who wrote and sings the songs that are part of the book and downloadable from her website. Gervay is widely published in literary journals and anthologies. She is included in an anthology together with Sir Salman Rushdie, David Malouf, Thomas Keneally, entitled ''Fear Factor Terror Incognito'', edited by Meenakshi Bharat and Sharon Rundle, published by Picador India and Australia. Gervay is head of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Australia East and New Zealand, former chair of the board of the New South Wales Writers' Centre, writer and ambassador of Room to Read, role model for Books in Homes, and patron of MonkeyBaa Theatre. She has been a speaker in many festivals and conferences including the SCBWI International Conference at the Bologna Book Fair, Byron Bay Writers Festival, Beijing Literature Festival, Somerset celebration of Literature Festival and festivals and conferences from Delhi to New York. ==Biography== A second generation daughter of post World War II Hungarian refugees, Gervay was born in Sydney. Gervay went to University of Sydney and became a teacher. She had two children James and Tory who are the inspiration for much of her writing. She completed a Master of Education (University of New South Wales) and a Master of Arts (University of Technology, Sydney). She decided to follow her two dreams – the creation with her mother and sister of the (Hughenden ), a literary and arts hotel in historic Sydney and becoming an author. Gervay is a recognised Australian author of children's and young adult literature. She was awarded the Lady Cutler Award for Distinguished Services to Children's Literature in 2007, UTS Award for Excellence and an Order of Australia in 2011. Her books are endorsed by organisations including The Children's Hospital at Westmead in Sydney, Room to Read, Life Education Australia, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation, Variety Children's Charity, Cancer Council Australia, Courage to Care and many others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Susanne Gervay」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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