Gavan Bromilow was born in Perth, Western Australia, and grew up in Western Australia. He worked as a farmhand after leaving high school, before travelling to Melbourne to break into journalism. He began as a cadet on The Oakleigh Times in 1959 and moved after one year to The Herald, where he completed a four year cadetship and did units in journalism and law affecting journalism at the University of Melbourne. He moved in 1963 to The Newcastle Herald, working for four years as an industrial and political writer and leaving in 1966 to work on The Mercury (Maitland), where he won The W.J. Walkley Award in 1967 for the best story in a provincial newspaper; a story dealing with the danger of abandoned coal mines.
In 1970, he moved to Canberra to take up the job of Editor of Department of Immigration publications. Five years later, he moved to The Department of Foreign Affairs as Editor of Publications. In 1978, he was posted to Jakarta as Cultural Attache and Director of the Australian Cultural Centre. In 1986, he was posted to Bombay, now Mumbai, as Consul-General and head of post, and in 1993 went to New Delhi as Counsellor Public Affairs.
He holds a BA from Deakin University with majors in Third World Development and Philosophy and has written several books, plays, and poems, as well as numerous newspaper and journal articles on international affairs, Aboriginal affairs and Indian historical locations.
Since 2004, he has lived part of the year in Australia and part in India.
(Biography supplied by author.)
