Garry Disher

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Garry Disher
OccupationAuthor
NationalityAustralian
Period1987–present
GenreCrime fiction, children's literature

Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949 in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.

Awards[]

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) published by Text
  • Her

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[]

Crime series - The Paul Hirschhausen novels[]

  • Bitter Wash Road (2013) published in 2014 as Hell to Pay in the US
  • Peace (2019) published by Text
  • Consolation (2020)

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[]

  1. ^ Sullivan, Jane (8 November 2019). "Garry Disher is Australian crime fiction's gentle giant". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  2. ^ "Colin Roderick Award 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 3 August 2020. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Woman and fiction dominate the 2021 Colin Roderick Literary Award Shortlist". James Cook University. 2 August 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2021.

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