Angela Savage (born 1966) is an Australian author.
Savage was born in Melbourne and educated at Siena College, Camberwell. [1] She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1989 with a BA (Combined Honours) in Criminology and the History and Philosophy of Science. She has worked for the Australian Red Cross in Southeast Asia, [2] 1993–1998; for Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia in the South Pacific, 2000–2002; for the Victorian Council of Social Service, 2002–2007; and for the Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres (Melbourne, Victoria), 2009–2014.
Savage won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2004 for Thai Died. [3] Her first novel, based on this manuscript (Behind the Night Bazaar, Text Publishing, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her second novel (The Half-Child, Text Publishing, 2010) was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. [4] In 2011 she won the Scarlet Stiletto prize for Australian women's short crime fiction, awarded by Sisters in Crime Australia, for 'The Teardrop Tattoos'. [5] Her third novel (The Dying Beach, Text Publishing, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, [6] and the Sisters in Crime Australia 14th Davitt Awards for Australian Crime Writing by Women (Best Adult Novel). [7] She contributed an essay to the collection, If I Tell You...I'll Have To Kill You: Australia's leading crime writers reveal their secrets (Michael Robotham ed., Allen & Unwin, 2013).
Christos Tsiolkas dedicated his fifth novel, Barracuda (Allen & Unwin, 2013), to Savage.
Helen Garner is an Australian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist. Garner's first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, immediately established her as an original voice on the Australian literary scene–it is now widely considered a classic. She has a reputation for incorporating and adapting her personal experiences in her fiction, something that has brought her widespread attention, particularly with her novels, Monkey Grip and The Spare Room (2008).
Caroline Overington is an Australian journalist and author. Overington has written 13 books. She has twice won the Walkley Award for investigative journalism. She has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch prize for journalism (2007), the Blake Dawson Waldron Prize (2008) and the Davitt Award for Crime Writing (2015).
Chloe Melisande Hooper is an Australian author.
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger.
The Ned Kelly Awards 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 excellence in the field of crime writing within Australia.
Garry Disher is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature.
Adrian McKinty is a Northern Irish writer of crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction, best known for his 2020 award-winning thriller, The Chain, and the Sean Duffy novels set in Northern Ireland during The Troubles. He is a winner of the Edgar Award, the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Macavity Award, the Ned Kelly Award, the Barry Award, the Audie Award, the Anthony Award and the International Thriller Writers Award. He has been shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière.
Chris Womersley is an Australian author of crime fiction, short stories and poetry. He trained as a radio journalist and has travelled extensively to such places as India, South-East Asia, South America, North America, and West Africa. He lives in Melbourne.
Malla Nunn is a screenwriter and author, who was born in Swaziland. Her works include the murder mystery, A Beautiful Place to Die, and Let the Dead Lie.
Peter Robert Corris was an Australian academic, historian, journalist and a novelist of historical and crime fiction. As crime fiction writer, he was described as "the Godfather of contemporary Australian crime-writing", particularly for his Cliff Hardy novels.
Kim Westwood is an Australian author born in Sydney and currently living in Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory.
David Whish-Wilson is an Australian author.
Heather Rose is an Australian author born in Hobart, Tasmania. Her novels are Bruny, The Museum of Modern Love, The Butterfly Man, The River Wife, White Heart and for children Finding Serendipity, A Week Without Tuesday and Blueberry Pancakes Forever. Her diverse and award-winning career has spanned advertising, business, the arts and writing. Her latest novel, Bruny was published in Australia in October 2019.
Hannah Kent is an Australian writer and author of two novels – Burial Rites (2013) and The Good People (2016).
Burial Rites (2013) is a novel by Australian author Hannah Kent, based on a true story.
The Courier's New Bicycle (2011) is a novel by Australian author Kim Westwood. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Ned Kelly Awards for Best First Crime Novel, and won the 2011 Aurealis Award and the 2012 Ditmar Award for Best Novel.
Candice Fox is an Australian novelist who won the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel for Hades. She was born in the western suburbs of Sydney into a large family. She spent a brief period in the Royal Australian Navy before studying and teaching at university level. In 2015, Candice started collaborating on a series of novels with bestselling author James Patterson.
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island is a 2008 book by Chloe Hooper. It is about the events surrounding the death in custody of Aboriginal Australian man, Cameron Doomadgee. It won numerous awards and was shortlisted for many others in 2009.
Vikki Wakefield is an Australian author who writes young adult fiction.
Dervla McTiernan is an Irish crime novelist.
