Trent Dalton

Trent DaltonThe Weekend Australian Magazine

Trent Dalton writes for The Weekend Australian Magazine. He’s a two-time Walkley Award winner; three-time Kennedy Award winner for excellence in NSW journalism and a four-time winner of the national News Awards Features Journalist of the Year. In 2011, he was named Queensland Journalist of the Year at the Clarion Awards for excellence in Queensland journalism. He has won worldwide acclaim for his bestselling novels Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies.

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Look, don’t touch

We’re all feeling the emotional toll. In the second part of his new weekly series, Trent Dalton takes the nation’s temperature.

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15/4/2019: Author and journalist Trent Dalton in outside his downstairs study, sitting on his Marshall amp. with "Keef" the Stonefish, a childhood gift from his dad, and probably Trents most treasured possession, at his home, in The Gap, Brisbane. Trent has had a huge publishing success with his first novel "Boy Swallows Universe" loosely based on his childhood. Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australian

Tales from the coronavirus bunker

You can’t lock down the human spirit. In a new weekly series, Trent Dalton looks for silver linings… and finds them everywhere.

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‘Insane’: the ride of Donny’s life

Unfit, with no bike and no cycling experience, Don Chandler signed up for a 1200km ride to the outback. Nobody thought this would end well…

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A state of perpetual bliss

From the surreal spectacle of Lake Eyre to the tables of the Barossa, South Australia is full of charms.

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AUS MAG. Pic of Malacoota beach front affected by the bush fires when they came through on new years day 2020 . Pic by Nic Walker. For a story by Trent Dalton. Date 16th Feb 2020

Back from the black

‘Apocalyptic is not too strong a word. Weeping is not too dramatic a reaction…’ In the burnt ruins of Australia’s east coast, Trent Dalton finds trauma, fury, shame and hope.

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A middleman’s view of a murky past

In the finale of our six-part series we meet Gary Diggles, who has a grandstand view on Sunny Avenue – and Queensland’s murky past.

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Family values

At 75, Robyn Clauscen – the fifth Sunny Avenue resident in our six-part series – has learnt to treasure the good memories.

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‘I still find things tough, I cry a lot’

Four kids, a new life Down Under. In the fourth of our series on Sunny Avenue, we meet Hannah Scott.

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How ‘lost’ Tom Moore escaped with his life

He’s an old soul at just 30, enjoying his second chance at life. In the third part of our six-part series on the residents of Sunny Avenue, we meet Tom Moore.

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Arguing the tosser on field of dreams

The thrills and agonies of a spot of backyard cricket in the summer of 1992.

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