David Whish-Wilson

David Whish-Wilson (born 1966) is an Australian author.

He was born in Newcastle, New South Wales but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. He left Australia in 1984 to live in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig. During this time he began to publish short stories in Australia (anthologised in Pascoe Publishing's Best Fifty Stories Collection) and had a longer piece short-listed for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award.

He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University.

Awards and nominations
  • 2010 Ned Kelly Awards: Shortlisted for Line of Sight
  • 2014 Shortlisted WA Premier's Book Awards for Perth
  • 2015 Winner Patricia Hackett Prize for Fiction for The Cook
  • 2020 Ned Kelly Awards: Shortlisted for True West[1]

Works

Novels
  • The Summons (2006, Random House)
  • Line of Sight (2010, Penguin)[2]
  • "In Savage Freedom" in Hard Labour (Crime Factory, 2012)
  • Zero at the Bone (2013, Penguin)
  • Perth (2013, New South Publishing)
  • Old Scores (2016, Fremantle Press)
  • The Coves (2018, Fremantle Press)
  • True West (2019, Fremantle Press)
  • Shore Leave (2020, Fremantle Press)

See also

Peter Whish-Wilson

References
  1. "Ned Kelly Awards 2020 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 26 August 2020. Retrieved 26 August 2020.
  2. "David Whish-Wilson". Davidwhish-wilson.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016. "I therefore decided to write Line of Sight (ISBN 9780670073740) as a crime novel, inspired by real events relating to the murder of Shirley Finn, but one whose characters are entirely fictionalised"



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