Andrew McGahan

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Andrew McGahan (born 1966) is an Australian novelist. Born in Dalby, Queensland, the ninth of ten children, he was educated at the local school and then at Marist College Ashgrove for years 11 and 12. He commenced an Arts degree at the University of Queensland but dropped out after only one month to return home to work on the family wheat farm.

His first novel, Praise, won the Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1991, a success that launched him on a full-time writing career.

He currently lives in Victoria and in his spare time has become quite an accomplished cook. He plans to release a cook book in the not too distant future, of broadly Asian Cuisine.

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[edit] Awards

McGahan has won numerous literary awards, including:

The Miles Franklin Award The White Earth, 2005
The Commonwealth Writers Prize South East Asia and South Pacific Region The White Earth, 2005
The Age Book of the Year Fiction (or Imaginative Writing) Award The White Earth, 2005
Courier-Mail Book of the Year Award The White Earth, 2004
Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing Best First Crime Novel Last Drinks, 2001[1]
The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Film Script - the Pacific Film and Television Commission Award Praise, 2000
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award Praise, 1991
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award The White Earth, 2005 longlisted

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[edit] Novels

[edit] Drama

[edit] Screenplay

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Ned Kelly Awards. Australian Crime Fiction Database. Retrieved on 2007-09-15.