Sydney Law School alumna, Nicole Abadee
Nicole (LLB First Class Hons ’91) had a 20 year career in law, including 10 years at the New South Wales Bar and 5 years teaching International Law and International Use of Armed Force at Sydney Law School, before she pivoted her career into the book industry.
Nicole then worked as a senior editor at Penguin Books before transitioning into a freelance career, starting as the Books Writer for the Australian Financial Review Magazine.
Today, Nicole is the Books Writer for Good Weekend Magazine, and she appears regularly at writers’ festivals and other literary events interviewing writers about their work. In 2021 and 2022 she was a judge for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, for the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction.
In 2020, Nicole started her successful literary podcast, Books, Books, Books, in which she interviews top Australian and international writers such as Hilary Mantel, Helen Garner and Hugh Mackay about their latest books.
