David McRobbie explained

David McRobbie
Birth Name:David Hewitt McRobbie
Birth Date:17 September 1934
Birth Place:Glasgow, Scotland
Occupation:Writer
Nationality:Australian
Genre:children's books
Children:4

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

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 sydneyChildren's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award

Notes and References

  1. Web site: David McRobbie - Summary Bibliography . . 26 April 2010.
  2. Web site: Author and producer David McRobbie . https://web.archive.org/web/20050913072234/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1385317.htm . dead . 13 September 2005 . . 5 June 2005 . 26 April 2010.
  3. Web site: David McRobbie . Fantastic Fiction . 26 April 2010.
  4. Web site: The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2003 Aurealis Awards . . 26 April 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100424100210/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2003.html#yn . 24 April 2010 . dead.