David Hewitt McRobbie is an Australian writer of television, radio and children's literature.
Biography
McRobbie was born in
Glasgow
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,
Scotland
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in 1934.
In 1958 he moved to Australia and worked as a teacher in the 1960s in
Papua New Guinea
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He is currently a full-time writer but has previously worked as a television and radio producer, a ship's engineer, and a college lecturer. McRobbie's first published work was in 1976 with a collection of stories, entitled ''Talking Tree and Other Stories''.
In 1991 he started writing the series of ''Wayne'' which he adapted in 1996 into a television series entitled ''The Wayne Manifesto''.
In 2000 he created the television series ''
Eugenie Sandler P.I.'' and was short-listed for the
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers for his novel, ''Tyro''.
In 2002 his novel ''Mum, Me, and the 19th C'' was a finalist for the
Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel
The Aurealis Awards are presented annually by the Australia-based Chimaera Publications and WASFF to published works to "recognise the achievements of Australian science fiction, fantasy, horror writers". To qualify, a work must have been fi ...
.
List of Works
Novels
''Wayne'' series
*''The Wayne Manifesto'' (1991)
*''Waxing with Wayne'' (1993)
*''The Wayne Dynasty'' (1993)
*''The Wages Of Wayne'' (1994)
*''Wayne in the Wings'' (1994)
*''A Whole Lot of Wayne'' (2008)
Other novels
*''Punch Lines'' (1987)
*''Head Over Heels'' (1990)
*''The Fourth Caution'' (1991)
*''This Book Is Haunted'' (1993)
*''Timelock'' (1993)
*''
Mandragora'' (1994)
*''Prices'' (1995)
*''See How They Run'' (1996)
*''Mum, Me, the 19c'' (1999)
*''Tyro'' (1999)
*''Eugenie Sandler P.I.'' (2000)
*''Fergus Mcphail'' (2001)
*''Mum, Me, and the 19th C'' (2002)
*''Strandee'' (2003)
*''Mad Arm of the Y'' (2005)
*''Vinnie's War'' (2011)
Collections
*''Talking Tree and Other Stories'' (1976)
*''Flying with Granny and Other Stories'' (1989)
Short fiction
*"Album" (1995) in ''Dark House'' (ed.
Gary Crew
Gary David Crew (born 23 September 1947) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction.
Awards
Crew has won the Australian Children's Book of the Year on four occasions.
Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
* 1991 '' Strange ...
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Source
Fantastic FictionISFDB
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Television
*'' The Wayne Manifesto'' (1996–1997) writer of 26 episodes, adapted from the ''Wayne series''
*'' See How They Run'' (1999) adapted from McRobbie's 1996 novel ''See How They Run''
*'' Eugenie Sandler P.I.'' (2000) creator and writer
*''Fergus McPhail
Fergus McPhail is an Australian children's comedy series that was released on Network Ten in 2004.
Plot summary
Fergus McPhail stumbles from crisis to crisis, mostly of his own making. His irrationally optimistic alter-ego acts as his conscienc ...
'' (2004) creator and writer of 26 episodes
Source
IMDB
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Nominations
Aurealis Awards
* Best young-adult novel
**2002: Nomination: ''Mum, Me, and the 19th C''
two children's awards from the school of the arts sydney
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award
* Older Readers
**2000: Nomination: ''Tyro''
References
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1934 births
Australian children's writers
Living people
Scottish emigrants to Australia
Writers from Queensland