Liam Davison

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Liam Patrick Davison (born 29 July 1957) is an award-winning Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, where until 2007, he taught creative writing at the Chisholm Institute of Technology in Frankston.

Educated at St Bede's College, Melbourne and Melbourne Teacher's College. Davison was awarded the National Book Council's Banjo Award for Fiction in 1993 and has been shortlisted for several literary prizes such as The Age Book of the Year Award and the Victorian Premier's Literary Award. His work is characterised by its sharp and perceptive insights into Australian history and landscape.

He is married with two children, Sam and Milly, and lives on the Mornington Peninsula.

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Publications

The Velodrome (1988)

The Shipwreck Party (Short stories) (1988)

Soundings (1993)

The White Woman' (1994)

The Betrayal (2001)

Collected Stories (2001)

The Spirit of Australia (with Jim Conquest)