Caroline Baum

Caroline Baum is a freelance journalist and editorial director of Booktopia. She has won the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literacy Fellowship. It was announced at the Adelaide Writers Festival on 4 March. She will use the $10,000 fellowship to write a biography of Lucie Dreyfus, the wife of Alfred Dreyfus, who was falsely charged with treason in the late 19th century. Baum said her project `seeks to restore Lucie Dreyfus to her rightful place in history¿. As part of her research, Baum will translate the letters between Lucie and her imprisoned husband into English. The Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship was established in 2011 by the Hazel Rowley Literary Fund and Writers Victoria to encourage Australian authors to attain a high standard of biography writing and to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley