Robert Drewe

Brief Biography

Robert Drewe was born in Melbourne, Australia in 1943. He grew up and was educated in Western Australia where he took up journalism with the West Australian in 1961. He was literary editor for the Australian from 1971 to 1974. He won the Walkley Award (Australia's highest such award) for journalism in 1976 and 1981. He currently lives in Sydney.

Bibliography

Novels
The Savage Crows 1976
A Cry in the Jungle Bar 1979
Fortune 1986
Our Sunshine 1991
The Drowner 1997
Grace 2005

Short Story Collections
The Bodysurfers 1983
The Bay of Contented Men 1989

Edited
The Picador Book of the Beach 1993

Drama
South American Barbecue 1990

Non-Fiction
The Shark Net 2000 (memoir)

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