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Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel. Disher has written three main book series.
‘Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction in terms of its form, content and style’. – Age/Sydney Morning Herald. Read a chapter. ‘Unquestionably Disher’s masterpiece, an astonishingly told caper that’s tough, tender, poignant and totally captivating.’. – Age.
Garry Disher is a famous Australian novelist, who has written a number of novels based on the Mystery & Thriller and non-fiction genres as well as a few children’s books. He is particularly famous for writing down the successful novel series, the Inspector Challis series.
‘Peter Temple and Garry Disher will be identified as the crime writers who redefined Australian crime fiction.’. Sydney Morning Herald. Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, 2021. In Consolation, Tiverton’s only police officer Constable Paul Hirschhausen is dealing with a snowdropper.
Garry Disher was born in 1949 and grew up on his parents' farm in South Australia. He gained post graduate degrees from Adelaide and Melbourne Universities. In 1978 he was awarded a creative writing fellowship to Stanford University, where he wrote his first short story collection.
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Garry Disher has published over 50 highly praised, prize-winning and widely translated books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, YA/children’s fiction, and writers’ handbooks.
Nov 8, 2019 · Seventy-year-old Disher has been a full-time writer for 30 years and he’s an award-winning author of 50 books, including 20 crime novels. Last year he won the Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement award and his fellow crime writers described him as “a giant not only of crime fiction but of Australian letters”.
