Phil Jarratt is a journalist, author, publisher and film-maker with
almost 50 years experience in Australian and international media.
Born in Wollongong, NSW, he is a former editor of Tracks, associate
editor of Surfer and editor and publisher of Australian Surfers
Journal. He is regarded as one of the foremost global authorities
on surfing, and has worked inside the executive ranks of two of the
world’s biggest surf brands – Rip Curl and Quiksilver, where he was
a senior marketing executive for 10 years in Europe and the US.
He has written more than 35 books, covering sport-related
biography, surfing and surf history, travel and youth culture, and
has been published in the US, UK and France, as well as Australia.
His history of Noosa, Place of Shadows, is his first book with
Boolarong Press.
As a film-maker, Phil has written and produced the documentaries 8
Days of Pure Stoke, Cup of Tea With God, Men of Wood & Foam and
Generation 99. Wood & Foam, made for Foxtel’s History Channel, was
selected for the 2018 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and
won the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Media Award for 2016.
Generation 99, a feature-length documentary about the music and
culture of Timor Leste’s children born of war, had its world
premiere in Dili, Timor Leste, in August, 2019. He is now working
on the development of Making Tracks, about the birth of the iconic
surfing magazine in the late 1960s.
Phil has received the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame Media Award
five times and was shortlisted for the Blake Dawson Business
Literature Prize in 2010 for Salts and Suits. He has lived in Noosa
for more than 30 years, where he now writes for the local newspaper
and is president of the Noosa World Surfing Reserve.
Selected publications
The Wave Game (1977): The first book about professional
surfing.
Home: The Evonne Goolagong Story (1993): Best-selling
collaboration.
Coming Clean (1995): Autobiography of Clean Up Australia founder
Ian Keirnan.
Man of the Cross (1996): Biography of humanitarian Rev Ted
Noffs.
Mr Sunset (1997): Best-selling biography of surfer Jeff Hakman.
The Mountain & The Wave (2006): Official history of Quiksilver.
Kelly Slater For The Love (2008): Collaboration with the greatest
surfer ever.
Salts & Suits (2010): The unofficial history of the surf
industry.
Surfing Australia (2012): The official history of surfing in
Australia.
That Summer At Boomerang (2014): Duke Kahanamoku’s 1914 visit to
Australia.
Bali Heaven And Hell (2014): Best-selling cultural history of
Bali.
Life of Brine – A Surfer’s Journey (2017): Best-selling surfing
memoir.
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