Garry Disher
Garry Disher is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel.
Disher's novels include three series: the Wyatt thrillers about a master thief in Melbourne; the Peninsula Crimes procedurals about Waterloo cops Hal Challis and Ellen Destry on the Mornington Peninsula; and the Hirsch series about police constable Paul Hirschhausen, set in rural South Australia, north of Adelaide.
Awards
- The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour"
- Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for The Bamboo Flute
- IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for The Bamboo Flute
- NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for The Sunken Road
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind
- Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for The Divine Wind
- Deutscher Krimi Preis, International, 2000: winner for Kickback
- Deutscher Krimi Preis, International, 2002: winner for The Dragon Man
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2010: winner for Wyatt
- Deutscher Krimi Preis, International, 2017: winner for Bitter Wash Road
- Ned Kelly Awards Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018
- Colin Roderick Award, 2020: shortlisted for Peace
- Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2021: winner for Consolation
- Colin Roderick Award, 2021: shortlisted for Consolation
- Colin Roderick Award, 2025: shortlisted for ''Sanctuary''
Novels
- Steal Away
- The Stencil Man
- The Sunken Road
- Past the Headlands
- Play Abandoned
- Under the Cold Bright Lights
- Her
- The Way It Is Now
- ''Sanctuary''
Crime series – The Wyatt novels
- Kickback
- Paydirt
- Deathdeal
- Crosskill
- Port Vila Blues
- The Fallout
- Wyatt
- The Wyatt Butterfly
- The Heat
- ''Kill Shot''
Crime series – The Challis and Destry novels, aka the Peninsula Crimes series
- The Dragon Man
- Kittyhawk Down
- Snapshot
- Chain of Evidence
- Blood Moon
- Whispering Death
- ''Signal Loss''
Crime series – The Paul "Hirsch" Hirschhausen novels
- Bitter Wash Road published in 2014 as Hell to Pay in the US
- Peace published by Text Publishing
- Consolation published by Text Publishing
- Day's End published by Text Publishing
- ''Mischance Creek''
Short story collections
- Approaches
- The Difference to Me
- Flamingo Gate
- ''Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine''
Young adult
- Blame the Wind
- Restless : Stories of Flight & Fear
- The Half Dead
- The Apostle Bird
- The Divine Wind
- From Your Friend, Louis Deane
- Moondyne Kate
- Eva's Angel
- ''Two-Way Cut''
Children's
- The Bamboo Flute
- Ratface
- Ermyntrude Takes Charge
- Walk Twenty, Run Twenty
- Maddie Finn
- ''Switch Cat''
Edited
- The Man Who Played Spoons
- Personal Best
- Personal Best 2
- ''Below the Waterline''
Non-fiction
- Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers
- Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft
- Bushrangers
- Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945
- Australia Then & Now
- Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Writing and Marketing
- ''Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft''