Alasdair Duncan
Alasdair Duncan (born 22 November 1982) is an author and journalist, based in Brisbane on the east coast of Australia. He is a section editor at weekly music magazine Rave, where he has published interviews with Cut Copy, LCD Soundsystem, M.I.A. and Soulwax, and is a frequent contributor to The ABC's Unleashed blog.
Duncan is perhaps most notable as the author of the novel "Sushi Central", which was published under the title "Dance, Recover, Repeat" in the United States by MTV Books. His second novel, Metro was published in Australia in August 2006, and was released in the UK by Burning House Books in February 2008.[1]
At age 16, Duncan's first short novel, "Rose and Charcoal," was shortlisted for the Penguin/Qantas/Somerset Award for School-Age Writers. He later won the State Library of Queensland's Young Writers Award with an entry called "Love".
In 2008 he was a judge for the State Library of Queensland's Young Writers Award.[2]
Published works
- Duncan, Alasdair (2003), Sushi central, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3399-9, http://www.worldcat.org/title/sushi-central/oclc/53348148
- Duncan, Alasdair (2005), Dance, Recover, Repeat, Pocket Books, ISBN 978-1-4165-0342-2, http://www.worldcat.org/title/dance-recover-repeat-go-out-get-wasted-meet-a-boy/oclc/255100049
- Duncan, Alasdair (2006), Metro, University of Queensland Press, ISBN 978-0-7022-3553-5, http://www.worldcat.org/title/metro/oclc/225207543
- Duncan, Alasdair; Queensland University of Technology. Creative Industries Faculty (2008) (Thesis/dissertation), Who are the MySpace generation and how can they be represented in a work of fiction?, OCLC 367579487
References
- ^ Elizabeth Allen (8 September 2006). "Writers have a word". The Courier-Mail. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20369699-5003424,00.html. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
- ^ "Young Writers Award deadline looms". The Courier-Mail. 18 July 2008. http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,24039131-5003424,00.html. Retrieved 27 February 2010.
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