Danielle Clode

Danielle Clode is an award-winning Australian non-fiction writer. Her books have been turned into a television documentary and inspired a perfume. Her childhood living on a boat and sailing around Australia have given her a passion for the natural environment and particularly for the sea. She studied psychology and politics at university, and has a doctorate in zoology. She's been a Rhodes scholar, a zookeeper and a scientific interpreter. Her books have won the Victorian Premier's Nonfiction Prize, been shortlisted for the Children's Book Council Awards and commended as Best Popular Zoology book by the Whitley Awards. Expeditions dans les mers du sud was inspired by her French great-great-grandfather Louis Jaunay who emigrated to Australia to make champagne.