Anne Deveson

Anne Deveson was an acclaimed writer, broadcaster and filmmaker whose work has largely focused on human rights issues. Her films on Africa and South-East Asia won three UN Media Peace Awards. Anne’s bestselling book about her son Jonathan’s struggles with schizophrenia, Tell Me I’m Here, won the 1991 Human Rights Award for non-fiction. In 1993 she was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for services to the media and mental health. Her most recent book Waging Peace was published by Allen & Unwin in 2013.

Anne Deveson died in 2016.