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''