| Bunty Avieson | |
| Workplaces: | University of Sydney |
| Alma Mater: | Macquarie University |
| Thesis1 Title: | The voice of the dragon: The emerging media in the new democracy of Bhutan |
| Thesis1 Url: | https://multisearch.mq.edu.au/permalink/61MACQUARIE_INST/1c87tk9/alma99244933102702171 |
| Thesis1 Year: | 2013 |
Carolyn "Bunty" Avieson is an Australian journalist, feature writer, novelist and academic.
Avieson has a PhD and a Master of Philosophy from Macquarie University, as well as an Associate Diploma of Journalism from RMIT University. In 2008–2009 she worked as a media consultant to newspaper Bhutan Observer, partly funded by the United Nations Development Program and was a consultant to Journalists Without Borders, Asia Pacific Desk.
Avieson has published three novels, a novella and travel memoir; and been translated into Japanese, German and Thai. She is the recipient of two Ned Kelly Awards. In the 1990s she was editorial director of mass market women's magazines Woman's Day and New Idea. She is a senior lecturer in journalism and media at the University of Sydney.[1]
Avieson's partner is the film producer Mal Watson,[4] who made The Cup and Travellers & Magicians, with writer/director Khyentse Norbu. Avieson and Watson have a daughter, Kathryn, who was the baby in the travel book Baby in a Backpack to Bhutan. They live in Sydney. Avieson's father was the late Associate Professor John Avieson, one of Australia's first journalism academics, who authored several books, including Applied Journalism in Australia and Editing Australian Newspapers.