GARRY DISHER BIBLIOGRAPHY

NOVELS

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

WYATT NOVELS

CHILDREN'S FICTION

ANTHOLOGIES (as editor)

ANTHOLOGIES (as contributor)

THE CRAFT OF WRITING

HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

CONTRIBUTIONS

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONOURS

 

NOVELS

• Steal Away (1987)
• The Stencil Man (1988)
• The Sunken Road (1996)
• The Dragon Man, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1999.

SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS

• Approaches: short stories (1981)
• The Difference to Me (1988)
• Flamingo Gate: a novella and stories (1991)
• Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (1997)

WYATT NOVELS

• Kickback (1991)
• Paydirt (1992)
• Deathdeal (1993)
• Crosskill (1994)
• Port Vila Blues (1996)
• The Fallout (1997)

CHILDREN'S FICTION

• The Bamboo Flute (1992)
• Ratface (1993)
• Switch Cat (picture book, 1994)
• Ermyntrude Takes Charge (1995)
• Blame the Wind (1995)
• Restless: stories of flight and fear (1995)
• Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)
• The Half Dead (1997)
• The Apostle Bird (1997)
• The Divine Wind, Hodder Headline, Sydney, 1998, London, 1999.

ANTHOLOGIES (as editor)

• The Man Who Played Spoons and other stories (1987)
• Personal Best: thirty Australian authors choose their best short stories (1989)
• Personal Best 2: stories and statements by Australian writers (1991)
• Below the Waterline (third in the Personal Best Series), HarperCollins, Sydney, 1999.

ANTHOLOGIES (as contributor)

• Echoes of Henry Lawson (1981)
• A Bundle of Yarns (1986)
• Arrivals (1987)
• Not Drowning But Waving (1988)
• Expressway (1989)
• Uneasy Truces (1990)
• Crimes for a Summer Christmas (1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995)
• Microstories (1993)
• Crosstown Traffic (1993)
• Case Reopened (1993)
• Dark House (1995)
• Shadow Alley (1995)
• Crossing (1995)
• Bonescribes (1995)
• Strange Fruit (1995)
• Lust (1995)
• Original Sin (1996)
• Out West (1996)
• Contemporary Classics (1996)
• And the Winner Is ... (1997)  
• Caro Llewellyn (ed.), My One True Love, Random House, Sydney, 1999

THE CRAFT OF WRITING

• Writing Fiction: an introduction to the craft (1983); revised second edition in 1989
• Writing Professionally: the freelancer's guide to writing and marketing (1989)
• Plot and Structure (in How to Write Crime, ed. Marele Day, 1996)
• How Not to Write a Novel, Victorian Writers' Centre Newsletter, June 1999

HISTORY TEXTBOOKS

• Wretches & Rebels: the Australian bushrangers (1981)
• Bushrangers (1984)
• Total War: the home front, 1939-1945 (1985)
• Australia Then & Now (1987)

CONTRIBUTIONS

Overseas:

Fiction, London Mystery Selection (UK); Prairie Schooner, Short Story Intl, Hardboiled, Antipodes (USA); Waves, True North Down Under (Canada); Kunapipi (Denmark); Paris Transcontinental (France).

Australia:

The Age, The Australian, The Bulletin, The Canberra Times, The Herald (Melbourne), Meanjin, Overland, Westerly, Southerly, Australian Short Stories, Island, Fine Line, Linq, Voices, Webbers, Fremantle Arts Review, Social Alternatives, The Melbourne Report, Nepean Review, The Tasmanian Review, Inprint, Open Door, Contempa, Verandah, Luna.

FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, HONOURS

• Henry Lawson Award 1977
• Stanford University Writing Fellowship 1978
• National Short Story Award 1986
• Literature Board writing grants and fellowships 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1996
• The Difference to Me - shortlisted for the 1988 Steele Rudd Award
• Flamingo Gate: a novella and stories (1991) - shortlisted for the 1992 Steele Rudd Award
• The Bamboo Flute - Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year, Younger Readers 1993; shortlisted for the 1993 NSW Premier's Award; represented Australia at the 1994 International Board on Books for Young Readers (IBBY) Conference, Seville, Spain
• Publishers Weekly (US) Best Books of the Year 1993
• The Sunken Road (1996) - submitted for the 1996 Booker Prize; shortlisted for the 1996 National Book Council Award for fiction; shortlisted for the 1998 National Festival Awards for Literature (Fiction).
• The Divine Wind: Winner, young people's category, NSW Premier's Awards, 1999; shortlisted, Ethnic Affairs category, 1999 NSW Premier's Awards; shortlisted, older readers' category, 1999 Children's Book Council Awards; shortlisted, Young Adult audio book category, 1999 Vision Australia Library Awards.

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