A. (Alec) S. Patrić is an Australian novelist and short story writer. Patrić was born in

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and migrated to Australia with his family when he was still a child."Meet an Aussie Author - A. S. Patrić", ''ANZLitLovers weblog, 1 April 2015
/ref> He won the 2016 Miles Franklin Award for his

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'' Black Rock White City''.Austlit - A. S. Patrić
/ref> Patrić lectures in creative writing at the

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and is also a bookseller in St Kilda, Victoria.

Bibliography

Novels

* '' Black Rock White City'' (2015) * ''Atlantic Black'' (2017)

Short story collection

* ''The Rattler and Other Stories'' (2011) * ''Las Vegas for Vegans'' (2012) * ''Bruno Kramzer: A Long Story'' (2013) * ''The Butcherbird Stories'' (2018)

References

External links

* * Reviews o
''Atlantic Black''
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- ''Booklover Book Reviews'' 21st-century Australian writers Australian male novelists Miles Franklin Award winners University of Melbourne faculty Serbian emigrants to Australia Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Australian people of Serbian descent {{Australia-writer-stub