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Nan Chauncy

Nan Chauncy (1900-70) is a distinguished award-winning writer who, in 1961, was the first Australian author to be awarded the international honour of the Hans Christian Andersen Diploma of Merit. Her books have been translated into thirteen languages and her first novel, They Found a Cave (1948), was made into a feature film in 1960. More recently, her award-winning novel Devil's Hill was dramatised in the bicentennial television series, Touch the Sun.

Nan Chauncy is commemorated in the Children's Book Council quin-quennial Nan Chauncy award for Children's Literature. Her home in Tasmania, Chauncy Vale, is now the Chauncy Vale Wildlife Sanctuary and is open to the public.

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