Jim Brigginshaw

Jim Brigginshaw is a partly-retired former newspaper editor who, among other recognition, holds Australia's most prestigious journalism award, a Walkley, and was placed second as Australian Journalist of the Year. He writes a humorous newspaper column that has appeared more than four thousand times. The Last Kanaka is his fourteenth book. His short stories have won recognition in most Australian states. He writes from Alstonville, a small village on the plateau above the New South Wales north coast.