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Nathan Hobby
Nathan Hobby was born in 1981 and grew up in country Western Australia. He spent his teens writing bad science fiction and started The Fur a few days after finishing high school. In 1999 he moved to the city to study, starting a Law Degree before changing direction and eventually graduating with an Arts Degree in 2002. He now lives in the hills out of Perth and works in a public library. He is a Christian dissident in the Anabaptist tradition, likes ruins and distrusts conformity.
Awards
Winner, T A G Hungerford Award, 2001
Books available from Fremantle Press
- Fur, The 2004
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