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James Cowan was born and educated in Australia. He has worked in Canada, London, New York, Marrakech, Menorca, Mauritius, Libya and Paris. He has also lived among the tribal peoples of North Africa and the Torres Strait Islands.
First published in 1964, his work has now been translated into dozens of languages, and it ranges from creative non-fiction, photography with essays, poetry, fiction to art criticism, children's fiction and autobiography. His internationally acclaimed books include A Mapmaker's Dream — a winner ofthe Commonwealth Writer's Prize — and Letters from a Wild State, as well as a number of richly illustrated books on contemporary Aboriginal art.
Recently returned to his native Australia from an expatriate life in Tuscany, he and his wife Wendy currently live on a remote farm some distance from Sydney.

His numerous books include:

Balgo : New Directions
Balgo Hills Aboriginal Paintings
Elements of the Aboriginal Traditions
Letters from a Wild State
A Mapmaker's Dream; Meditations of Fra Mauro, Cartographer to the Court of
Venice
Messengers of the Gods : Tribal Elders Reveal the Ancient Wisdom of the Earth
Mysteries of the Dreamtime: The Supernatural Life of the Australian Aborigine
Myths of the Dreaming : Interpreting Aboriginal Legends
Petroglyphs: Prose Poems
The River People
Rumi's Divan of Shems of Tabriz : Selected Odes
Toby’s Angel: A Novel
A Troubadour’s Testament
Two Men Dreaming: A Memoir, a Journey
Where Two Oceans Meet : A Selection of Odes from the Divan of Shems of Tabriz
Wirrimanu: Aboriginal Art from the Balgo Hills