Gary Corby
{{Short description|Australian author (born 1963)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date|1963}}
| birth_place = Sydney, Australia
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| occupation = novelist
| nationality = Australian
| period = 2008 - present
| genre = historical mystery
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| notableworks = The Athenian Mysteries
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| website = {{URL|http://GaryCorby.com/}}
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Gary Corby is an Australian author of historical mysteries set in the world of Classical Greece.
His novels feature historical figures from the time as recurring characters, notably Socrates, Pericles, and the priestess Diotima of Mantinea. The series hero is a fictional detective/agent named Nicolaos; the heroine is Diotima.
Published works
=The Athenian Mysteries=
- The Pericles Commission (2010) {{ISBN|978-0-312-59902-7}}{{cite web|url=https://www.books-by-isbn.com/authors/gary/corby/|title=Books by Gary Corby|website=Books by ISBN|access-date=16 December 2017}}
- The Ionia Sanction (2011) {{ISBN|978-0-312-59901-0}}
- Sacred Games (2013) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-227-3}}
- The Marathon Conspiracy (2014) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-387-4}}
- Death ex Machina (2015) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-519-9}}{{cite web |url=http://www.randomhouse.com/book/243560/death-ex-machina-by-gary-corby |title=Death Ex Machina by Gary Corby |publisher=Random House |accessdate=29 December 2014}}
- The Singer from Memphis (2016) {{ISBN| 978-1-61695-668-4}}
- Death on Delos (2017) {{ISBN|978-1-61695-821-3}}
Awards and nominations
- Nominated for the Ned Kelly Award for Best First Novel in 2010, for The Pericles Commission.{{cite web |url=http://www.nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds |title=Nominations for the Ned Kelly Awards for crimewriting |accessdate=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110502040249/http://nedkellyawards.com/index.php/news-feeds |archivedate=2011-05-02 }} Ned Kelly Awards 2011 nominations
- Winner of the 2008 Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction in the historical mystery category for the short story The Pasion Contract.{{cite web |url=http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/conan-doyle-fiction-prize-08.html |title=The Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for New Fiction - the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection Lancelyn Green Bequest |accessdate=2011-05-24 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120324133841/http://www.conandoylecollection.co.uk/conan-doyle-fiction-prize-08.html |archivedate=2012-03-24 }} Arthur Conan Doyle Prize for new fiction 2008 winner list
References
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External links
- [http://GaryCorby.com/ A Dead Man Fell from the Sky]. Official website and blog.
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Category:21st-century Australian novelists
Category:Australian male novelists
Category:Australian mystery writers
Category:Australian historical novelists
Category:Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity