Speechwriter and author

Dennis Glover is an Australian writer and novelist. The son of factory workers, Dennis grew up in the working class Melbourne suburb of Doveton before studying at Monash University and King’s College Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in history. He has worked for two decades as an academic, newspaper columnist, policy adviser and speechwriter to Australia’s most senior political, business and community leaders. An often outspoken political commentator, his books include An Economy is not a Society, The Art of Great Speeches and Orwell’s Australia. His debut novel The Last Man in Europe tells the dramatic story of how George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four. His second novel, Factory 19, is an Arcadian story about the factory world and how we lived before the invention of the mobile phone and the computer. And his most recent novel Thaw retells the Scott of the Antarctic story for the age of climate change.

See his recent newspaper columns.