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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

Ten Tiny Things on Wilderness Society shortlist

Ten Tiny Things author Meg McKinlay was pleasantly surprised to be shortlisted for the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature, just one day after winning a Crystal Kite award.
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