Peter Yeldham - OAM

Peter Yeldham has been a writer since the age of seventeen, when he wrote short stories and radio scripts.   He went to England, intending to stay a year and stayed nearly twenty, writing for British television in the nineteen sixties, then feature films and stage plays, including the highly successful “Birds on the Wing” and “Fringe Benefits” which ran for two years in Paris.   He has written another five plays for the theatre and collaborated on the musical “Seven Little Australians.”

His Australian work includes numerous mini-series, among them 1915, Captain James Cook, The Alien Years, All the Rivers Run,  The Heroes, Heroes ll – The Return, The Far Country, Run from the Morning, The Timeless Land,  Ride on Stranger and The Battlers.   He adapted Bryce Courtenay’s novel Jessica which won the 2005 Logie award for best mini-series.    He is the author of eight previous novels, which include A Bitter Harvest, Without Warning, The Currency Lads, Against The Tide, and  The Murrumbidgee Kid.

In 1991 he received an Order of Australia Medal for achievement in film and television, and in 2003 a Centenary Medal for services to Australian writing.   Industry honours include six Australian Writing Awards, a British Guild Award , and a nomination for an International Emmy for his television drama, Captain James Cook.

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Click here to read his brief autobiography, covering a 60 year career in writing for screen, stage and print.

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