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.
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]
Wayne series
Other novels
Source: Fantastic Fiction, ISFDB
Source: IMDB
Aurealis Awards
two children's awards from the school of the arts sydneyChildren's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award