David Whish-Wilson

Wikipedia:
David Whish-Wilson PhD (1966 - ) is an Australian author born in Newcastle, NSW but raised in Singapore, Victoria and Western Australia. He left Australia in 1984 to live in Europe, Africa and Asia, where he worked as a barman, actor, streetseller, labourer, exterminator, factory worker, gardener, clerk, travel agent, teacher and drug trial guinea pig. During this time he began to publish short stories in Australia (anthologised in Pascoe Publishing's Best Fifty Stories Collection) and had a longer piece short-listed for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award. He currently lives in Fremantle, Western Australia, where he teaches creative writing at Curtin University. Wikipedia.

Publications

The Summons, 2006, Random House
Line of Sight, 2010, Penguin
'In Savage Freedom' in Hard Labour, 2012, Crime Factory
Zero at the Bone, 2013, Penguin
Perth, 2013, New South Publishing, paperback edition 2020
Old Scores, 2016, Fremantle Press
The Coves, 2018, Fremantle Press
True West, 2019, Fremantle Press
Shore Leave, 2020, Fremantle Press
The Sawdust House, 2022, Fremantle Press

References and Links

Page on Fremantle Press.

Freotopia

This page incorporates material from Garry Gillard's Freotopia website, that he started in 2014 and the contents of which he donated to Wikimedia Australia in 2024. The content was originally created on 20 October, 2017 and hosted at freotopia.org/authors/whishwilson.html (it was last updated on 19 April, 2024), and has been edited since it was imported here (see page history). The donated data is also preserved in the Internet Archive's collection.