Virginia Duigan wrote the screenplay of the 1998 movie The Leading Man, starring Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton and Barry Humphries. Before becoming a novelist, Duigan worked as a journalist, broadcaster, editor and TV scriptwriter. She was a regular feature writer on The National Times, and contributed documentaries to ABC radio. She was a freelance contributor to The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review, Cinema Papers, and in London to the The Observer and The Times. She was Literary Editor of The National Times, and a theatre, book, film and restaurant reviewer. The Age of Discretion is her fourth novel, after Days Like These, The Biographer and The Precipice.
About
Virginia Duigan, author, screenwriter and journalist. Born Cambridge UK
Attended 8 schools in the UK, Malaya and Australia.
BA (hons) Melbourne University
Lived and worked in England, Australia and USA
Journalism
UK: Journalist on World’s Press News, Campaign; freelanced for The Observer, The Times.
Australia: freelance feature writer on for The National Times, The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin, Cinema Papers, Cleo. Variously theatre, film, restaurant & book reviewer; freelance book editor; Arts Editor, The National Times.
TV
Interviewer ABC show Nightcap.
Co-writer ABC series Lucky Colour Blue, Beat of the City. Script editor/writer Andra. ABC drama script consultant.
Film
Script assessor, Australian Film Commission
Original screenplay The Leading Man (directed by my brother John Duigan)
Novels
Days Like These (Random House Vintage)
The Biographer (Random House Vintage)
The Precipice (Random House Vintage)
The Age of Discretion (Ventura Press)