David McRobbie

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David McRobbie
BornDavid Hewitt McRobbie
(1934-09-17) 17 September 1934 (age 89)
Glasgow, Scotland
OccupationWriter
NationalityAustralian
Genrechildren's books
Children4

David Hewitt McRobbie (born 1934) is an Australian writer of television, radio and children's literature.

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Biography

McRobbie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1934. [1] In 1958 he moved to Australia and worked as a teacher in the 1960s in Papua New Guinea. [2] He is currently a full-time writer but has previously worked as a television and radio producer, a ship's engineer, and a college lecturer. McRobbie's first published work was in 1976 with a collection of stories, entitled Talking Tree and Other Stories. [3] In 1991 he started writing the series of Wayne which he adapted in 1996 into a television series entitled The Wayne Manifesto. [3] In 2000 he created the television series Eugenie Sandler P.I. and was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers for his novel, Tyro. [2] In 2002 his novel Mum, Me, and the 19th C was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. [4]

List of Works

Novels

Wayne series

Other novels

Collections

Short fiction

Source: Fantastic Fiction, ISFDB

Television

Source: IMDB

Nominations

Aurealis Awards

two children's awards from the school of the arts sydney Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award

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References

  1. ↑ "David McRobbie - Summary Bibliography". ISFDB . Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  2. 1 2 "Author and producer David McRobbie". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 5 June 2005. Archived from the original on 13 September 2005. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  3. 1 2 "David McRobbie". Fantastic Fiction. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  4. ↑ "The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2003 Aurealis Awards". Locus Online. Archived from the original on 24 April 2010. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
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