Hilarie Lindsay

Throughout her distinguished career as an author, Hilarie Lindsay has published more than twenty books across a range of genres including short stories, poetry, fiction, children’s, non-fiction and a full-length play. Her first published work was in The Grenfell Record after winning The Grenfell Prose award in 1966 and 1967. She is a past president of the Society of Women Writers and was awarded the MBE for services to literature in 1975 and followed it up with an OAM in 2006. As well as her writing career, Hilarie has run her family’s toy company, A.L Lindsay & Co, in Leichhardt, Sydney, for more than 40 years and was the first woman president of the Toy & Games Manufacturers of Australia.