Peter Doyle (born 1951) is an Australian author, musician, and visual artist. He lives in Newtown,

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, and works for Macquarie University where he teaches Print Media Production and as a part-time curator of Sydney’s

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Biography

Peter Doyle was born in Maroubra, Sydney, New South Wales, and grew up in Sydney's eastern suburbs, which provides much of the setting for his fiction work. He has a

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(Communications) from UTS and a PhD in Media and Mass Communications on the renderings of virtual space in early popular music recording from Macquarie University (2002). He also maintains a research interest in comics and the

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, the history of twentieth century

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, as well as crime writing, both in Australia, and overseas. He worked variously as a taxi driver, musician, and teacher prior to his first publication, ''

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'' in 1996, which won him Australia's prestigious

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for Best First Crime Novel in 1997. He followed this with another successful sequel, '' Amaze Your Friends'', which won him another award, the

for Best Crime Novel in 1998. His third title, '' The Devil's Jump'', released in 2001, was a prequel, and was set in Sydney in the closing days of

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. His curatorial work at the Sydney

has seen him curate two major exhibitions, ‘Crimes of Passion’ (2002–2003), and ‘City of Shadows: inner city crime and mayhem, 1912-1948’ (November 2005-February 2007), both of which were social histories of inner-city twentieth century Sydney from the point of view of crime scene photography. His musical style is a mixture of Sydney blues, rockabilly, country and pub rock scenes, and his interest in music is a strong influence in his fiction writing.

Awards

*Co-winner of 1997

for Best First Crime Novel for ''Get Rich Quick'' *Winner 1999

Best Crime Novel for ''Amaze Your Friends'' *Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2006 award for Best Research in Record Labels and General History *2006 National Trust/Energy Australia Heritage Award in the Interpretation and Presentation, Corporate and Government division

Works

Novels

Non-fiction

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Doyle, Peter 1951 births Australian crime writers Australian educators Australian taxi drivers Writers from Sydney Living people Ned Kelly Award winners