Nadia Mahjouri
Author of Literary Fiction
based in TAS
Nadia Mahjouri is a Moroccan Australian writer, counsellor, and group facilitator specialising in maternal mental health. Her background is in health policy, governance and academia, where her research focused on ethics and feminist philosophy.
Nadia and her husband live in Hobart/nipaluna with varying combinations of their family which includes three young adults, two school aged children and a puppy called Russell Sprout.
She hosts The Whole Truth: Motherhood and the Writing Life podcast, about how writers manage to keep writing while living in the messy middle of family life, work and creativity.
She has been shortlisted for The Deborah Cass Prize, QWC Publishable Competition, SBS Emerging Writers Competition. She was awarded a 2022 Arts Tasmania ASA Mentorship, a 2023 Dramaturgy and Playwriting Fellowship APT, and a QWC Underrepresented Writers Varuna Fellowship 2023. Her short story Leaving Home was published in the anthology Emergence (2023 Hardie Grant).
Her debut novel Half Truth was published by Penguin Random House in February 2025. Half Truth is a moving drama charting families, motherhood and loss, identity and belonging. Set between Morocco and Australia, Half Truth was inspired by her own experience of travelling to Morocco with her new baby to find her father.
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This author holds a Working with Children Check (WWCC), Working with Vulnerable People Check (WWVP) and Police Check.
