David Whish-Wilson

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David Whish-Wilson (born 1966) is an Australian author.

He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. He left Australia in 1984 to live in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig. During this time he began to publish short stories in Australia (anthologised in Pascoe Publishing's Best Fifty Stories Collection) and had a longer piece short-listed for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award.

He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University.

Awards and nominations[]

• 2010 Ned Kelly Awards: Shortlisted for Line of Sight
• 2014 Shortlisted WA Premier's Book Awards for Perth
• 2015 Winner Patricia Hackett Prize for Fiction for The Cook
• 2020 Ned Kelly Awards: Shortlisted for True West^[1]

Works[]

Novels[]

• The Summons (2006, Random House)
• Line of Sight (2010, Penguin)^[2]
• "In Savage Freedom" in Hard Labour (Crime Factory, 2012)
• Zero at the Bone (2013, Penguin)
• Perth (2013, New South Publishing)
• Old Scores (2016, Fremantle Press)
• The Coves (2018, Fremantle Press)
• True West (2019, Fremantle Press)
• Shore Leave (2020, Fremantle Press)

See also[]

Peter Whish-Wilson

References[]

External links[]

• Official website
• "David Whish-Wilson Mines Perth a City of Dreams". The Australian. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
• "Perth". NewSouth Books. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
• "Zero at the Bone | Penguin Books Australia". Penguin.com.au. 27 January 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
• "Books - Random House Books Australia". Randomhouse.com.au. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
• "m-z". Cunnaneagency.com. 6 January 1990. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
• David Whish-Wilson (27 January 2016). "David Whish-Wilson | Penguin Books Australia". Penguin.com.au. Archived from the original on 31 December 2012. Retrieved 17 February 2016.

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