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Robert Drewe
Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne and grew up in Perth. His novels and short stories have been widely translated, won many national and international prizes and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre. His memoir The Shark Net, was adapted as an ABC and BBC television miniseries. His 1996 novel The Drowner was short listed for all five Australian Premier’s Awards.
Awards
Winner, Vision Australia Library Awards, Braille Book of the Year, 2001
Winner, Western Australian Premier’s Book Award, 2000
Books available from Fremantle Press
From the Catalogue
Wilderness Society Award
Congratulations to Sally Morgan whose book The Last Dance won the Wilderness Society’s 2013 Environment Award for Children’s Literature. Meg McKinlay and Kyle Hughes-Odgers were also shortlisted in the same category for Ten Tiny Things