Photo: Graham Henderson with his
painting Self-Portrait,
Mummified, inpired
by Pharoah Rameses II
Graham Henderson was born
in Melbourne in 1953. He studied Drama, Literature, Print-making, and
Film at Rusden State College. He began writing stories and plays in the
mid 1970s. His first collection of stories, The Anguish Of Departure,
was published in 1979. His first novel, The Mountain,
was published by Picador in 1989. The following year it was shortlisted
for The Age Book of the Year Award. He has translated from the French,
in collaboration with the author, Raphaëlle Pomian, a collection
of short stories, Gifts & Sorrows
(Black Pepper 1996). He has written five collections of poems and over
twenty plays. In his youth he worked extensively in the theatre as an
actor and director. Diary of a Dwarf , a collection of novellas, was published by Black Pepper in 1995, followed by his collection Place of the Paintings & Other Stories
in 2004. In 1998 he was invited to the Struga International Poetry
Festival in Macedonia. He has devoted many years to painting and has
been exhibited in galleries including Heidi Gallery, Time Gallery, and
The Gallery of Slavic Art. His second
novel, The Colony, was published by Black Pepper in 2009.