Victor Kelleher Explained

Victor Kelleher
Pseudonym:	Veronica Hart (In two books)
Birth Date:	19 July 1939
Birth Place:	London, England
Occupation:	Young adult fiction, Children's fiction
Nationality:	Australian
Period:	1979–present
Genre:	Fantasy, Science Fiction

Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian writer. Kelleher was born in London^[1] and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a Ph.D. in English Literature from The University of South Africa. He has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976,^[2] with his South African wife, Alison, and was associate professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. After receiving a grant from the Australia Council Literature Board, Kelleher spent six months of 1996 at the Kessing Writers' Studio in Paris. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travels in Africa.

Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the Australian Children's Book Award.

Awards

1989 – Children's Peace Literature Award^[3]
1993 – COOL Fiction for Older Readers Award (CBCA) won for Del-Del
1992 – nominated, Ditmar Award, Best Novel or Collection award for Brother Night and Del Del
1990 – nominated, Ditmar Award, Best Australian Long Fiction award for The Red King
1988 – nominated, Ditmar Award, Best Australian Long Fiction award for The Makers
1987 – nominated, Ditmar Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel award for Taronga
1985 – Ditmar Award, Best Australian Novel award for Beast of Heaven
1983 – Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Book of the Year for Master of the Grove"^[4]

List of books

Series

Parkland Series

Parkland (1994)-Book 1 of the Parkland Series
Earthsong (1995)-Book 2 of the Parkland Series
Fire Dancer (1996)-Book 3 of the Parkland Series

Gibblewort the Goblin series

Goblin in the Bush (2002)
Goblin on the Reef (2003)
Goblin in the City (2004)
Goblin in the Rainforest (2004)
Goblin at the Zoo (2005)
Goblin in the Snow (2005)
Goblin at the Beach (2007)
Gibblewort the Goblin: The Get Me Outta Here! Collection (2014)
Gibblewort the Goblin: The Winter Escape Collection (2014)
Gibblewort the Goblin: The Summer Holiday Collection (2014)

Novels

Forbidden Paths Of Thual (1979)
Voices from the River (1979)
The Hunting Of Shadroth (1981)
Master Of The Grove (1982)
Africa And After (1983)
Papio (1984)
The Green Piper (1984)
The Beast Of Heaven (1984)
Taronga (1986)
The Makers (1987)
Baily's Bones (1988)
Em's Story (1988)
The Red King (1989)
Wintering (1990)
Brother Night (1990)
Del-Del (1992)
To The Dark Tower (1992)
Micky Darlin' (1992)
Rescue! An African Adventure (1992)
Where The Whales Sing (1994)
Red Heart (1996)
Storyman (1996)
Slow Burn (1997)
Into The Dark (1999)
Riding The Whales (1999)
The Ivory Trail (1999)
Billy The Baked-Bean Kid (2002)
Born of the Sea (2003)
The Grimes Family (2004)
Dogboy (2006)

Collections

The Traveller: Stories of Two Continents (1988)
Collected Stories (1997)

Aussie Bites

Magic Violin
The Gorilla Suit
Tim and Tig (2007)
What Dino Saw

Picture books

Johnny Wombat (1996) (with Craig Smith)
Where's God? (2005) (illustrated by Elise Hurst)

Billy the Baked Bean Kid

As Veronica Hart

Double God (1994)
The House That Jack Built

External links

Notes and References

Web site: Victor Kelleher author page. HarperCollinsPublishers Australia. 2019-11-16.
Web site: Victor Kelleher author page. Penguin Press Australia. 2019-11-16.
Web site: Children's Peace Literature Award. AustLit. 2019-11-12.
Web site: Winners and Commended Books 1980 - 1989. Children's Book Council of Australia. 23 August 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20141216043453/http://cbca.org.au/8089.htm. 16 December 2014. dead. dmy-all.