Kieran Donaghue

Kieran studied philosophy in Australia, the United States and Germany in the 1970s and 1980s. He taught for a short period at the Australian National University, then spent nearly twenty years working for the Australian Government's overseas aid program. During this time he made numerous visits to countries in Africa, Asia and the Pacific, learning much from local people and from many fine aid workers dedicated to improving the lives of others. Praying for Sunlight, Waiting for Rain has its genesis in the visits Kieran made as an aid official to the highlands of Papua New Guinea.

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Kieran Donaghue

Further biographical details, along with information about Kieran's first novel, German Lessons, and his contribution to an anthology on the 2019-20 Australian bushfires, Continent Aflame: Responses to an Australian Catastrophe."

Books by Kieran Donaghue

Praying for Sunlight, Waiting for Rain: A New Guinea Story

Ellen Starck, a young South Australian from a privileged background, shares the prejudices of her society about native peoples. Her initial experience of the newly ?discovered' New Guinea highlands, in which she arrives in 1937 as the wife ... Read more about Praying for Sunlight, Waiting for Rain: A New Guinea Story