Graeme Simsion

Graeme C. Simsion
Born Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation Author, consultancy manager, data modeller
Nationality Australian, NZ, UK
Education 2014 Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT
2013 Advanced Diploma of Screenwriting, RMIT
2006 PhD, University of Melbourne
1986 MBA, Deakin University
1984 GDipC&IS, Monash University
1976 BSc, Monash University
Notable awards

2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award

2014 Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year
Spouse Professor Anne Buist
Children 2
Website
graemesimsion.com

Graeme C. Simsion FACS is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller.[1]

Career

Simsion won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project.[2][3] Text Publishing has sold the rights to the book internationally for over $1.8m.[4] The Rosie Project was published in Australia in January 2014,[5] and has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world.[6][7] Simsion initially wrote The Rosie Project as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment.[8] A sequel to The Rosie Project, titled The Rosie Effect, was published on 24 September 2014 by Text Publishing.[7] Simsion’s third novel, The Best of Adam Sharp, about a relationship rekindled, was published by Text Publishing in 2016 with rights so far sold in fourteen countries[9] and movie rights optioned to Toni Collette’s company Vocab Films.[10] Simsion’s fourth novel is a collaboration with his wife, Anne Buist, titled Two Steps Forward, a story of middle-aged renewal set on the Chemin de St Jacques / Camino de Santiago. It is due to be published by Text Publishing in October 2017.[11]

Prior to writing fiction he was an information systems consultant and wrote two books and several papers about data-modelling. He established a consulting business in 1982 and sold it in 1999. At that time Simsion Bowles and Associates had over seventy staff.[12] He co-founded a wine distribution business, Pinot Now with Steven Naughton.[13] In 2006 he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in the area of data modeling.[14]

He is married to Professor Anne Buist and has two children.[14]

Awards

The Rosie Effect

The Rosie Project

Other Awards

Publications

Novels

Short Stories

Technical

Short Films and Plays

References

  1. ↑ Steger,Jason "A First Date with Destiny", The Age 26 January 2012
  2. ↑ "Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript: Winner Announced". The Wheeler Centre. 4 June 2012.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Stringybark Stories Author profile" Nov 2012
  4. ↑ "No Lounging Around as New Author Gains Ground", The Age 28 September 2012
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "The Rosie Project". www.textpublishing.com.au. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  6. ↑ https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-rosie-project
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "The Rosie Effect". www.textpublishing.com.au. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  8. ↑ "Rosy film future for Rosie Project". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  9. ↑ https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-best-of-adam-sharp
  10. ↑ http://deadline.com/2017/05/toni-collette-graeme-simsion-the-best-of-adam-sharp-vocab-films-1202099473/
  11. ↑ https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/two-steps-forward
  12. ↑ "Text Publishing – Graeme Simsion" Text Publishing biography 2013
  13. ↑ "Pinot Now About Us"
  14. 1 2 Tippet, Gary (4 May 2015). "Author, author". 3010 – Melbourne University Magazine. Retrieved 2017-01-14.
  15. ↑ Author of 'The Rosie Project' awarded Book of the Year prize – ABC news
  16. ↑ Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project named Australian Book of the Year – news.com.au
  17. ↑ "The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 2015-11-30.
  18. ↑ "It’s Graduation time!". RMIT University.
  19. ↑ Simsion,Graeme "Three Encounters with the Physical" The Age 12 January 2013
  20. ↑ "FAW Results" 2007
  21. ↑ "DAMA Achievement Awards". Data Management International. 2003.
  22. ↑ Australian Computer Society – Victorian fellows – 1998
  23. ↑ "The life and times of Greasy Joe: Drinking, driving and the possibility of sex". search.informit.com.au. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  24. ↑ "Three encounters with the physical". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  25. ↑ "Stringybark Flash Fiction and Micro Fiction Award 2012". www.stringybarkstories.net. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  26. ↑ "Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Fiction Award 2012". www.stringybarkstories.net. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  27. 1 2 3 "Stringybark Short Story Award 2011". www.stringybarkstories.net. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
  28. 1 2 "Twisted Stringybark Short Story Award 2012". www.stringybarkstories.net. Retrieved 2015-11-27.
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