David Astle

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David Astle

Born 1961
Sydney, Australia
Nationality Australian
Occupation Writer

David Astle (born 1961 in Sydney, Australia) is an award-winning Melbourne-based writer of non-fiction, fiction and plays. He won third prize in the 1990 The Age Short Story Award and his first novel, Marzipan Plan, was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. He regularly writes for The Age and also makes cryptic crossword puzzles. In 2001 he won the James Joyce Suspended Sentence Award for short fiction.[1]

In 2008 his play Cowboy Humour will be part of the Short & Sweet play festival[2], which has previously featured Astle's plays including The Gentleman Had An Axe in 2007.[3]

He teaches journalism at RMIT University and in 2004 was awarded a DSC Teaching Award for best sessional teacher.[4]

Contents

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Marzipan Plan
  • The Book of Miles (Minerva, 1997) 1-86330-589-0

[edit] Non-fiction

  • Cassowary Crossing (Penguin Books, 2005) ISBN 0-14-300169-8; (re-jacketed as Offbeat Australia (Penguin Books, 2007) ISBN 9780143007425)
  • One Down, One Missing (Hardie Grant Books, 2003) 9781740661416

[edit] Plays

  • The Gentleman Had an Ax (2007)
  • Cowboy Humour (2008)

[edit] References

  1. ^ A mind field of puzzling pleasure - theage.com.au
  2. ^ Week 3 program | Short & Sweet
  3. ^ http://assets.theartscentre.net.au/shortandsweet/rscs/2007%20Files/070828;%20S&S%20Season%20Outline%2021107.pdf
  4. ^ RMIT - DSC Teaching Award Winners 2004

[edit] External links

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NAME Astle, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION award-winning Melbourne-based writer of non-fiction, fiction and plays
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Sydney
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH
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