Craig Sherborne

Craig Sherborne
Born	1962 Sydney, New South Wales
Language	English
Nationality	Australian
Years active	1989-

Craig Sherborne (born 1962) is an Australian poet, playwright and novelist. He was born in Sydney and attended Scots College there before studying drama in London. He lives in Melbourne. ^[1]

Awards

• The Ones Out of Town, 1989 winner Wal Cherry Play of the Year Award for Best Unproduced Play
• Hoi Polloi, 2006 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction ^[2]
• Hoi Polloi, 2007 highly commended National Biography Award
• Muck, 2008 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction
• Muck, 2008 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Non-Fiction Book
• The Amateur Science of Love, 2011 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction
• The Amateur Science of Love, 2012 winner Melbourne Prize — Best Writing Award
• The Amateur Science of Love, 2012 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Award for New Writing
• Tree Palace, 2015 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award ^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• The Amateur Science of Love (2011) ^[4]
• Tree Palace (2014)
• Off the Record: A novel (2018) ^[5]
• The Grass Hotel (2022) ^[6]

Poetry

Collections

• Necessary Evil (2006)

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Hay	1996	Sherborne, Craig (January–February 1996). "Hay". Quadrant. 40 (1–2): 21.
The lopper	1996	Sherborne, Craig (March 1996). "The lopper". Quadrant. 40 (3 [324]): 61.
Superstitions of the harvest bell	1996	Sherborne, Craig (March 1996). "Superstitions of the harvest bell". Quadrant. 40 (3 [324]): 61.

Drama

• The Ones Out of Town (1989)
• Look at Everything Twice, For Me (1999)
• Off the Record (2004)

Autobiography

• Hoi Polloi (2005)
• Muck (2007)

References

1. Austlit - Craig Sherborne
2. ""Victorian Premier's Literary Award Shortlist"". HeraldSun, 12 August 2006. ProQuest   360828069 . Retrieved 26 September 2025.
3. "The Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015 Shortlist". The Trust Company. Retrieved 29 May 2015.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
4. Sherborne, Craig (2 January 2014). The Amateur Science of Love, book by Craig Sherborne. Text Publishing Company. ISBN   978-1-922147-77-6.
5. Sherborne, Craig (29 January 2018). Off the Record: A Novel, book by Craig Sherborne. Text Publishing Company. ISBN   978-1-925603-24-8.
6. Sherborne, Craig (1 February 2022). The Grass Hotel, book by Craig Sherborne. Text Publishing Company. ISBN   978-1-922458-35-3.