Fiona Harari is a freelance journalist, television producer and author. Fiona was named the 2013 Freelance Journalist of the Year for her body of work published in Fairfax Media’s Good Weekend magazine: “The here and now”, “Last Survivors” and “Missing years”. She has over 30 years worked at The Age, Time and The Australian and has also spent many periods freelancing.

Fiona Harari is an award-winning journalist who began her career at The Age newspaper in 1984. Since then she has worked for Time (Australia) magazine and was a senior writer with The Australian newspaper where her weekly Ad Lib column was widely read.

She has worked on television programs including Enough Rope and Elders, and is the author of A Tragedy in Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld and Teresa Brennan. She has most recently written for Good Weekend and The Monthly.

Throughout her career she has covered many of the major stories that have affected Australia, everything from the Spycatcher trial to the Sydney Olympics, and has twice been nominated for a Walkley Award.

In 2012, Fiona Harari won a Non-fiction Book award at Walkley Book award for Marcus Einfeld And Teresa Brennan

Fiona Harari was named the 2013 Freelance Journalist of the Year at the 2013 Storyology summit for her body of work published in Fairfax Media’s Good Weekend magazine: “The here and now”, “Last Survivors” and “Missing years”.

Judges described Fiona as a “compelling storyteller who never loses sight of the fact she is allowing people to speak about deeply traumatic times in their lives that continue to haunt them”.

“Her work shows a sensitivity and compassion that also understands the newsworthy nature of what she’s doing,” they said.

Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-

based academic, had each spent years establishing demanding careers and international reputations, to create two lives that, on paper at least, exuded success.

Then Einfeld was caught speeding.

But rather than pay a small fine, the former judge told a court that Brennan had been driving his car.

In reality she had been dead for three years.

Through a chain of events that at times seemed exceedingly unlikely, Einfeld's lie was exposed, with onceunimaginable consequences.

His world, and virtually every honour he had earned, rapidly disappeared.

And his old friend Brennan, who had died in suspicious circumstances, was suddenly, posthumously, attracting attention for all the wrong reasons.

Based on Andrew Denton's television series of the same name, ELDERS is an exploration of the successes and failures, opportunities and formative experiences that are learned over a lifetime.

For his ABC television series ELDERS, Andrew Denton interviewed twelve diverse but well-known people

over the age of 65, with the express aim of discovering what lessons they have learned in their lives and what values they have come to cherish most.

the conversations were surprising, illuminating, humorous, thoughtful and candid.

It was compelling television, and it makes inspiring and riveting reading.

All the interviews from both series feature in this book, which also includes material that never made it to air.

Featuring: Alan Alda, Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, Muhammad Yunus, Bob Hawke, Sir David Attenborough, Isabel Allende, Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, Clive James, Father Des Reid, Helen thomas, Richard Dawkins and Helen Bamber.

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