Matthew Condon

Matthew Condon
Born 1962 (age 49–50)
Nationality Australian

Matthew Condon (born 1962) is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist.

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Biography

Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany,[1] he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including The Lulu Magnet, A Night at the Pink Poodle, The Motorcycle Cafe, The Pillow Fight and, most recently, The Trout Opera,[2] an epic novel that took him more than ten years to write and examines the Australian character through its chief protagonist, Wilfred Lampe, a rabbiter and farm hand who spends his entire life in the township of Dalgety, on the banks of the Snowy River. The Sydney Daily Telegraph described the novel as "an instant classic". The novel will be published by Doubleday in the UK in 2009.

Condon, who now writes for The Courier-Mail and is the father of two children, is based in Brisbane, Australia.

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Novels

Short fiction

Short story collections

Children's fiction

Non-fiction—Brisbane, 2010

Edited

Awards and nominations

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