Michael Gerard Bauer

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Michael Gerard Bauer (born 1955) is an Australian part-time English teacher and children's writer.

Michael Gerard Bauer lives in Brisbane, Queensland. The Running Man, his first novel has been well received, winning the 2005 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers, and listed as one of the top 10 books for young adults for 2004 in Magpies magazine and was short-listed for the 2005 NSW Premier's Award and Victorian Premier's Award and the 2006 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. [1]. He has also written two other books, Don't Call Me Ishmael (2006), and Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs (2007). Don't Call Me Ishmael won the 2008 South Australian Festival Award for Literature, the 2007 Children's Peace Prize and was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Award and the 2007 CBCA Award for Older Readers. Bauer's novels have been translated into Dutch, German and Italian and have been published in the USA by Greenwillow, Harper-Collins.

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  1. ^ Authors & Illustrators - B Department of Education and Training, Government of Western Australia.
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NAME Bauer, Michael Gerard
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SHORT DESCRIPTION Australian children's writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Australia
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