Phillip Gwynne
Phillip Gwynne (born 1958) is an Australian author. He is best known for his 1998 debut novel, Deadly, Unna?, a rites-of-passage story which uses Australian rules football as a backdrop to explore race relations in a small town in South Australia.[1] The novel won several awards, selling over 200,000 copies, and was adapted into a 2002 film titled Australian Rules.[2] Gwynne has written numerous other books, including children's and young adult books as well as screenplays for television and movies.
Life
[edit]Gwynne was born in Melbourne, Victoria, and grew up in rural areas in Victoria and South Australia. He graduated from James Cook University with a degree in marine biology. He also pursued a career as a computer programmer. He came to professional writing later in life and wrote his first novel at the age of 35. His award-winning novel Deadly Unna won Children's Book of the Year in 1998 and was made into a feature film Australian Rules in 2002.[3] Deadly Unna also won him the 1999 Children's Peace Literature Award.[4]
Works
[edit]Young adult
- Deadly, Unna? (1998)
- Nukkin Ya (2000)
- Jetty Rats (2004)
- Swerve (2009)
- The Debt book 1: Catch the Zolt (2013)
- The Debt book 2: Turn off the Lights (2013)
- The Debt book 3: Bring Back Cerberus (2013)
- The Debt book 4: Fetch the Treasure Hunter (2013)
- The Debt book 5: Yamashita's Gold (2013)
- The Debt book 6: Take a Life (2013)
Children's books
- The Worst Team Ever (1999)
- Born to Bake (2005)
- A Chook Called Harry (2009)
- Escape from Kids' Club (2010)
- Ruby Learns to Swim (2012)
- The Queen with the Wobbly Bottom (2012)
- Yobbos Do Yoga (2013)
- What's Wrong with the Wobbegong? (2014)
- Michael (2014)
- Little Owl (2014)
- Small Town (2020)
References
[edit]- ^ Phillip Gwynne, AustLit. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ "Meet the Author: Phillip Gwynne" Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Good Reading Magazine. Retrieved 22 June 2014.
- ^ "Philip Gwynne Bird Sighting"
- ^ "Children's Peace Literature Award". AustLit. Retrieved 12 November 2019.