David McRobbie

McRobbie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1934.{{cite web |url=http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?David_McRobbie |title=David McRobbie - Summary Bibliography |publisher=ISFDB |date= |access-date=26 April 2010}} In 1958 he moved to Australia and worked as a teacher in the 1960s in Papua New Guinea.{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1385317.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050913072234/http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1385317.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 September 2005 |title=Author and producer David McRobbie |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=5 June 2005 |access-date=26 April 2010}} He is currently a full-time writer but has previously worked as a television and radio producer, a ship's engineer, and a college lecturer. McRobbie's first published work was in 1976 with a collection of stories, entitled Talking Tree and Other Stories.{{cite web |url=http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/david-mcrobbie/ |title=David McRobbie |publisher=Fantastic Fiction |date= |access-date=26 April 2010}} In 1991 he started writing the series of Wayne which he adapted in 1996 into a television series entitled The Wayne Manifesto. In 2000 he created the television series Eugenie Sandler P.I. and was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers for his novel, Tyro. In 2002 his novel Mum, Me, and the 19th C was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.{{cite web |url=http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2003.html#yn |title=The Locus Index to SF Awards: 2003 Aurealis Awards |publisher=Locus Online |access-date=26 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100424100210/http://www.locusmag.com/SFAwards/Db/Aurealis2003.html#yn |archive-date=24 April 2010 |url-status=dead}}

Wayne series

• The Wayne Manifesto (1991)
• Waxing with Wayne (1993)
• The Wayne Dynasty (1993)
• The Wages Of Wayne (1994)
• Wayne in the Wings (1994)
• A Whole Lot of Wayne (2008)

Other novels

• Punch Lines (1987)
• Head Over Heels (1990)
• The Fourth Caution (1991)
• This Book Is Haunted (1993)
• Timelock (1993)
• Mandragora (1994)
• Prices (1995)
• See How They Run (1996)
• Mum, Me, the 19c (1999)
• Tyro (1999)
• Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000)
• Fergus Mcphail (2001)
• Mum, Me, and the 19th C (2002)
• Strandee (2003)
• Mad Arm of the Y (2005)
• Vinnie's War (2011)

• Talking Tree and Other Stories (1976)
• Flying with Granny and Other Stories (1989)

• "Album" (1995) in Dark House (ed. Gary Crew)

Source: [http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/david-mcrobbie/ Fantastic Fiction], [http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?David_McRobbie ISFDB]

• The Wayne Manifesto (1996–1997) writer of 26 episodes, adapted from the Wayne series
• See How They Run (1999) adapted from McRobbie's 1996 novel See How They Run
• Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000) creator and writer
• Fergus McPhail (2004) creator and writer of 26 episodes

Source: [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0574512/ IMDB]

Aurealis Awards

• Best young-adult novel
• 2002: Nomination: Mum, Me, and the 19th C

two children's awards from the school of the arts sydney

Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award

• Older Readers
• 2000: Nomination: Tyro

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Category:1934 births

Category:Australian children's writers

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Category:Scottish emigrants to Australia

Category:Writers from Queensland