Julia Leigh [SEP] educated at
PhD in English from the University of Adelaide.
Career.
Leigh is the author of the novels "The Hunter" (1999) and "Disquiet" (2008), which received critical acclaim. "Disquiet" won the Encore Award for outstanding second novels in 2009. "The Hunter" was adapted into a 2011 feature film starring Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O'Connor. Leigh also wrote and made her directorial debut with "Sleeping Beauty", a 2011 film starring Emily Browning about a university student drawn
), was a lorry driver for Ward & Goldstone Ltd. His mother, Julia (née Lewis, born 1935), was headmistress of St Margaret Mary's Primary School, Hindley Green. One grandparent was a miner and another was a Lithuanian-Jewish violinist.
Mason was educated at St Joseph's RC Primary School in Leigh and Thornleigh Salesian College in Bolton, which was a Grammar School when Mason attended in the 1970s. He graduated from the University of Sheffield with a degree in music and politics in 1981 and trained