Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in

Corporate Town of Burra The Corporate Town of Burra was a local government area in South Australia from 1876 to 1969. The municipality was proclaimed on 29 June 1876 following the necessary petition of residents in the townships of Aberdeen, Kooringa and Redruth, severi ...

South Australia South Australia (commonly abbreviated as SA) is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of , it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories ...

) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.

Awards

*The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour" *

Children's Book Council of Australia The Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA) is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents the annual Children's Book of the Year Awards to books of literary merit ...

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 The National Book Council Banjo Awards were presented by the National Book Council of Australia from 1974 to 1997 for works of fiction and non-fiction. The name commemorates the bush poet Andrew Barton Banjo Paterson. The Council has enjoyed nota ...

, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for '' The Sunken Road'' *

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, th ...

, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for '' The Divine Wind'' *

Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for '' The Divine Wind'' *

, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for '' The Divine Wind'' *

Deutscher Krimi Preis The Deutscher Krimi Preis, or the ''German Crime Fiction Award'', is the oldest and most prestigious German literary prize for crime fiction. It has been awarded since 1985 by the Bochum Crime Archive. Unlike the Friedrich Glauser Prize, which is ...

(German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2000: winner for '' Kickback'' *

(German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2002: winner for '' The Dragon Man'' *

Ned Kelly Awards The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to reward ...

for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for ''

Chain of Evidence Chain of custody (CoC), in legal contexts, is the chronological documentation or paper trail that records the sequence of custody, control, transfer, analysis, and disposition of materials, including physical or electronic evidence. Of particula ...

'' *

for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2010: winner for ''

Wyatt Wyatt is a patronymic surname, derived from the Norman surname ''Guyot'', derived from "widu", Proto-Germanic for "wood". Notable people with the surname "Wyatt" include A * Aaron Wyatt, Australian musician * Addie L. Wyatt (1924–2012), Amer ...

'' *

(German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2017: winner for '' Bitter Wash Road'' *

Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018 *

Colin Roderick Award The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at Queensland's James Cook University for "the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life". It was first presented ...

, 2020: shortlisted for ''Peace'' *Colin Roderick Award, 2021: shortlisted for ''Consolation''

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) *''

'' (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

*'' The Dragon Man'' (1999) *'' Kittyhawk Down'' (2003) *''

Snapshot Snapshot, snapshots or snap shot may refer to: * Snapshot (photography), a photograph taken without preparation Computing * Snapshot (computer storage), the state of a system at a particular point in time * Snapshot (file format) or SNP, a file ...

'' (2005) *''

'' (2007) *'' Blood Moon'' (2009) *'' Whispering Death'' (2012) *''Signal Loss'' (2016)

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 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)

Critical studies and reviews of Disher's work

;''Consolaton'' *

References

External links

Garry Disher's website
Living people 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian novelists Australian children's writers Australian crime writers Australian crime fiction writers Australian male novelists Australian non-fiction writers Australian male short story writers Ned Kelly Award winners People from Burra, South Australia 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian male writers 1949 births Male non-fiction writers {{Australia-writer-stub