Rohan Wilson is an Australian novelist who was born and raised in

Launceston, Tasmania Launceston () or () is a city in the north of Tasmania, Australia, at the confluence of the North Esk and South Esk rivers where they become the Tamar River (kanamaluka). As of 2021, Launceston has a population of 87,645. Material was copie ...

, where he currently lives.Austlit - Rohan Wilson
/ref> He holds degrees and diplomas from the universities of Tasmania, Southern Queensland and Melbourne. In 2003 he travelled to Japan, where he worked as an English teacher for several years. On returning to Australia with his wife and child, he completed his thesis, ''The Roving Party : Extinction Discourse in the Literature of Tasmania'' for his Master of Arts from the University of Melbourne. His first novel, ''

The Roving Party ''The Roving Party'' is a 2011 novel written by Tasmanian author Rohan Wilson. Wilson's first book, it is published by Allen & Unwin. ''The Roving Party'' won the 2011 Vogel Award. The novel was also shortlisted for the 2011 Victorian Premier's ...

'', won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) in 2011 and was subsequently shortlisted for a number of Australian literary awards. His second novel, ''To Name Those Lost'', won the author the 2016

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— The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction. His third novel, ''Daughter of Bad Times'', was shortlisted for the 2019

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' Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award and The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award.

Novels

* ''

'' (2011) * ''To Name Those Lost'' (2014) * ''Daughter of Bad Times'' (2019)

Awards

* 2011 winner The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) — ''

'' * 2012 winner

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— UTS Award for New Writing — ''

'' * 2012 co-winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year * 2013 winner Tasmania Book Prizes — Margaret Scott Prize - ''

'' * 2015 winner Tasmania Book Prize — People's Choice Award — ''To Name Those Lost'' * 2016 winner

— The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction — ''To Name Those Lost'' *2019 finalist

— The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award — ''Daughter of Bad Times'' *2019 finalist

— The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award — ''Daughter of Bad Times''

References

21st-century Australian novelists Australian male novelists People from Tasmania Living people Writers from Tasmania 21st-century Australian male writers Year of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub