Nonja Peters

Dutch-Australian writer and academic
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroDutch-Australian writer and academic
PlacesNetherlands Australia
isAcademic Writer Historian Anthropologist
Work fieldEducation Literature Social science
Gender
Female
Birth27 February 1944, Tilburg, North Brabant, Netherlands
Age80 years
Star signPisces
Education
University of Western Australia
Awards
Centenary Medal2001
Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau2006
The details

Biography

Nonja Yvonne Huberta Maria Peters is a Western Australian author and academic of Dutch ancestry.

Her books produced on migration and Dutch Australians have received wide acclaim.

She has served on a number of Australian and Western Australian bodies, as well as being head of the Curtin University Migration, Ethnicity, Refugees & Citizenship Research Unit

Works

  • Peters, Nonja (1990), Northam Migrant Camps photographic exhibition, Northam and District Heritage Development Association, retrieved 25 February 2015
  • Peters, Nonja Ivonne; University of Western Australia. Department of Anthropology (1999), Trading places : Greek, Italian, Dutch and Vietnamese enterprise in Western Australia, retrieved 25 February 2015
  • Peters, Nonja; University of Western Australia Press; Peters, Nonja (2001), Milk and honey but no gold : postwar migration to Western Australia, 1945-1964, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-876268-56-5
  • Peter, Nonja; Peters, Nonja (2006), The Dutch down under, 1606-2006, University of Western Australia Press, ISBN 978-1-920694-75-3
  • Peters, Nonja (2008), From tyranny to freedom : Dutch children from the Netherlands East Indies to Fairbridge Farm School 1945-1946, Black Swan, ISBN 978-0-9757519-7-8
  • Depok - De droom van Cornelis Chastelein, 2019, LM Publishers Volendam, ISBN 9789460225246
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