Australian writer
Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra , South Australia ) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.[ 1] He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel .
Disher has written three main book series. These include: the Wyatt [ 2] thrillers about a master thief, the Peninsula Crimes [ 3] procedurals about Waterloo cops Hal Challis and Ellen Destry, and the Hirsch series[ 4] about South Australian rural police constable Paul Hirschhausen.
Awards
The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour"
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for The Bamboo Flute
IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for The Bamboo Flute
NBC Banjo Awards , NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for The Sunken Road
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards , Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards , The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for The Divine Wind
Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2000: winner for Kickback
Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2002: winner for The Dragon Man
Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence [ 5]
Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2010: winner for Wyatt [ 5]
Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2017: winner for Bitter Wash Road
Ned Kelly Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018[ 6]
Colin Roderick Award , 2020: shortlisted for Peace [ 7]
Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2021: winner for Consolation [ 8]
Colin Roderick Award, 2021: shortlisted for Consolation [ 9]
Bibliography
Novels
Steal Away (1987)
The Stencil Man (1988)
The Sunken Road (1996)
Past the Headlands (2001)
Play Abandoned (2011)
Under the Cold Bright Lights (2017)
Her (2017)
The Way It Is Now (2021)
Sanctuary (2024)
Crime series – The Wyatt novels
Kickback (1991)
Paydirt (1992)
Deathdeal (1993)
Crosskill (1994)
Port Vila Blues (1996)
The Fallout (1997)
Wyatt (2010)
The Wyatt Butterfly (2010: omnibus containing Port Vila Blues and The Fallout )
The Heat (2015)
Kill Shot (2018)
Crime series – The Challis and Destry novels, aka the Peninsula Crimes series
Crime series – The Paul "Hirsch" Hirschhausen novels
Bitter Wash Road (2013) published in 2014 as Hell to Pay in the US
Peace (2019) published by Text Publishing
Consolation (2020) published by Text Publishing
Day's End (2022) published by Text Publishing
Short story collections
Approaches (1981)
The Difference to Me (1988)
Flamingo Gate (1991)
Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (crime stories, 1997)
Young adult
Blame the Wind (1995)
Restless : Stories of Flight & Fear (1995)
The Half Dead (1997)
The Apostle Bird (1997)
The Divine Wind (1999)
From Your Friend, Louis Deane (2000)
Moondyne Kate (2001)
Eva's Angel (2003)
Two-Way Cut (2004)
Children's
The Bamboo Flute (1992)
Ratface (1993)
Ermyntrude Takes Charge (1995)
Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)
Maddie Finn (2002)
Switch Cat (1994)
Edited
The Man Who Played Spoons (1987)
Personal Best (1989)
Personal Best 2 (1991)
Below the Waterline (1999)
Non-fiction
Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers (1981)
Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (1983)
Bushrangers (1984)
Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945 (1985)
Australia Then & Now (1987)
Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Writing and Marketing (1989)
Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (revised edition) (2001)
References
External links
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The Little Wave by Pip Harry (2020)
Aster's Good, Right Things by Kate Gordon (2021)
A Glasshouse of Stars by Shirley Marr (2022)
Runt by Craig Silvey (2023)
Scar Town by Tristan Bancks (2024)
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