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Peter Docker
Peter Docker was born in Wiilman Country at Narrogin, Western Australia, and is of Irish, Cornish and English heritage. He grew up on a station in Wudjari Country at Coomalbidgup, near Esperance. He has worked as a dairy-hand, hay carter, wheat-bogger, window-washer, bank teller, lift driver and barman. He has written short stories published in Australian literary journals and has written for stage and radio. Someone Else’s Country was his first book. He is currently writing a play about the Mickelbergs.
Awards
Shortlisted, Aurealis Awards, 2012
Books available from Fremantle Press
- The Waterboys 2011
- The Waterboys ebook 2011
- Someone Else's Country ebook 2009
- Someone Else's Country 2009
From the Catalogue
Waarda series for young readers: Lilli and her Shadow
by Laura Dudgeon & Pat Dudgeon with illustrations by Tracey Gibbs & Sally Morgan edited by Sally Morgan
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