Graeme Simsion

Simsion was born in New Zealand and moved to Australia with his family when he was 12 years old.Steger, Jason. [http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/a-first-date-with-destiny-20130125-2dbw2.html "A First Date with Destiny"], The Age 26 January 2012

Prior to becoming an author, Simsion was an information systems consultant, co-authoring the book Data Modelling Essentials, and worked in wine distribution.{{Cite book| url=https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1211351| title=Data Modeling Essentials|last1=Simsion|first1=Graeme|last2=Witt|first2=Graham|date=2004|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Inc.|isbn=9780126445510|edition=3rd|location=San Francisco, CA, USA}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.pinotnow.com.au/_Information/Who-are-we.asp|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203072845/http://www.pinotnow.com.au/_Information/Who-are-we.asp|url-status=dead|title=Pinot Now About Us|archivedate=3 February 2013|accessdate=2 November 2019}}

In 2012 Simsion won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book The Rosie Project.{{cite web|title=Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript: winner announced |url=http://wheelercentre.com/dailies/post/86483ae121d0/| publisher=The Wheeler Centre| date=4 June 2012|access-date=18 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012202342/http://wheelercentre.com/dailies/post/86483ae121d0/|archive-date=12 October 2014|url-status=dead}} The novel was published by Text Publishing to critical acclaim in Australia in January 2014.{{Cite book|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-rosie-project|title=The Rosie Project|publisher=www.textpublishing.com.au|isbn=9781922147844 |accessdate=2015-11-30 |last1=Simsion |first1=Graeme |date=29 March 2016 }} By March 2016 it had sold more than three and a half million copies in over 40 countries around the world.{{Cite book|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-rosie-project|title=The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion—You Don't Find Love, Love Finds You|date=29 March 2016|isbn=9781922147844 | accessdate=2 November 2019|via=www.textpublishing.com.au |last1=Simsion |first1=Graeme |publisher=Text Publishing Company }}

Simsion initially wrote The Rosie Project as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment.{{Cite web|title = Rosy film future for Rosie Project|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/rosy-film-future-for-rosie-project-20130427-2ill9.html|website = The Sydney Morning Herald| date=27 April 2013 |accessdate = 2015-11-27}}

A sequel titled The Rosie Effect, was published on 24 September 2014.

The third and final book, The Rosie Result, was published in February 2019.{{Cite book|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-rosie-result|title=The Rosie Result, book by Graeme Simsion|date=2019-02-05|isbn=9781925773477|last1=Simsion|first1=Graeme|publisher=Text Publishing Company }}

Simsion's third novel, The Best of Adam Sharp was published by Text Publishing in 2016. Its movie rights were optioned to Toni Collette’s company Vocab Films.{{Cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2017/05/toni-collette-graeme-simsion-the-best-of-adam-sharp-vocab-films-1202099473/|title=Toni Collette Options Graeme Simsion Novel 'The Best of Adam Sharp' For Her Vocab Films|first1=Anita|last1=Busch|date=23 May 2017|accessdate=2 November 2019}}

Simsion's fourth novel Two Steps Forward, a collaboration with his wife Anne Buist, was published on 2 October 2017.{{Cite book|url=https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/two-steps-forward|title=Two Steps Forward, book by Graeme Simsion and Anne Buist|date=1 October 2018|isbn=9781925773118 |accessdate=2 November 2019|via=www.textpublishing.com.au |last1=Simsion |first1=Graeme |last2=Buist |first2=Anne |publisher=Text Publishing Company }} Its sequel, titled Two Steps Onward, was published in June 2021.

Simsion is married to psychiatrist Anne Buist and has two children.{{cite journal|last1=Tippet|first1=Gary|date=4 May 2015|title=Author, author|url=http://mag.alumni.unimelb.edu.au/author-author/|journal=3010 – Melbourne University Magazine|accessdate=2017-01-14}}

In 2006 he obtained a PhD in data modelling from the University of Melbourne.

• International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Ireland, longlisted, 2015
• Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year, Winner, 2014[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-29/author-of-the-rosie-project-awarded-book-of-the/5486064 Author of 'The Rosie Project' awarded Book of the Year prize] – ABC news
• Australian Book Industry's General Fiction Book of the Year, winner, 2014[http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/graeme-simsions-the-rosie-project-named-australian-book-of-the-year/story-fn9412vp-1226929365110 Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project named Australian Book of the Year] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140531014719/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/books-magazines/graeme-simsions-the-rosie-project-named-australian-book-of-the-year/story-fn9412vp-1226929365110 |date=31 May 2014 }} – news.com.au
• Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, shortlisted, 2014
• Best Debut Fiction, Independent Booksellers of Australia Awards, shortlisted, 2014
• Waverton Good Read Award, United Kingdom, shortlisted, 2014
• The Indie Awards, shortlisted, 2014
• Victorian Premier's Award for Best Unpublished Manuscript, Winner, 2012{{Cite web|url=http://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012/the-prize-for-an-unpublished-manuscript|title=The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript|website=The Wheeler Centre|accessdate=2015-11-30|archive-date=8 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208061803/http://www.wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012/the-prize-for-an-unpublished-manuscript|url-status=dead}}

• Indie Book Awards, shortlisted, 2015{{Cite book|title = The Rosie Effect|url = https://www.textpublishing.com.au/books/the-rosie-effect|publisher = www.textpublishing.com.au| isbn=9781925240443 |accessdate = 2015-11-30 | last1=Simsion | first1=Graeme | date=29 March 2016 }}
• Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award, shortlisted, 2015
• Australian Book Industry General Fiction Award, shortlisted, 2015

• Doctor of Communication Honoris Causa - RMIT{{cite web|title=It's Graduation time!|url=http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2014/december/its-graduation-time/|publisher=RMIT University|access-date=17 January 2015|archive-date=30 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141230114508/http://www.rmit.edu.au/news/all-news/2014/december/its-graduation-time/|url-status=dead}}
• The Age Short Story Award (2012) – second prize - Three Encounters with the PhysicalSimsion, Graeme [http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/three-encounters-with-the-physical-20130111-2cl32.html "Three Encounters with the Physical"] The Age 12 January 2013
• Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Award (2012) - second prize - Eulogy for a Sinner[http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Author_profiles_-_Simsion.html "Stringybark Stories Author profile"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227031804/http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Author_profiles_-_Simsion.html |date=27 February 2013 }} Nov 2012

• Two Steps Onward, with Anne Buist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2021 {{ISBN|9781922330697}}
• The Rosie Result, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2019 {{ISBN|9781925773477}}
• Two Steps Forward, with Anne Buist, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017 {{ISBN|9781925498776}}
• The Best of Adam Sharp, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016 {{ISBN|9781925355888}}
• The Rosie Effect, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014 {{ISBN|9781922182104}}
• The Rosie Project, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012 {{ISBN|9781922079770}}

• Intervention on the Number 3 Tram, Review of Australian Fiction, 2017.
• Like It Was Yesterday, Review of Australian Fiction, 2015.
• The Life and Times of Greasy Joe, The Big Issue, 2015.{{Cite journal|title = The life and times of Greasy Joe: Drinking, driving and the possibility of sex|url = http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=471399670276933;res=IELAPA|journal = Big Issue Australia| issue=491 | pages=28–31 |accessdate = 2015-11-27 | last1=Simsion | first1=Graeme }}
• A Visit to the Other Side, Conde Nast Traveller, 2013.
• Three Encounters with the Physical, The Age Short Story Award, 2013.{{Cite web|title = Three encounters with the physical|url = http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/three-encounters-with-the-physical-20130111-2cl32.html|website = The Sydney Morning Herald| date=11 January 2013 |accessdate = 2015-11-27}}
• Cutting, Behind the Wattles, 2012.{{Cite web|title = Stringybark Flash Fiction and Micro Fiction Award 2012|url = http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Flash_Fiction_Award_2012.html|website = www.stringybarkstories.net|accessdate = 2015-11-27|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304074735/http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Flash_Fiction_Award_2012.html|archivedate = 4 March 2016|df = dmy-all}}
• Eulogy for a Sinner, Seven Deadly Sins, 2012.{{Cite web|title = Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Fiction Award 2012|url = http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Seven_Deadly_Sins_Short_Fiction_Award_2012.html|website = www.stringybarkstories.net|accessdate = 2015-11-27|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304071754/http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Seven_Deadly_Sins_Short_Fiction_Award_2012.html|archivedate = 4 March 2016|df = dmy-all}}
• A Confession in Three Parts, The Road Home, 2012.{{Cite web|title = Stringybark Short Story Award 2011|url = http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Short_Story_Award_2011.html|website = www.stringybarkstories.net|accessdate = 2015-11-27|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070751/http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Stringybark_Short_Story_Award_2011.html|archivedate = 4 March 2016|df = dmy-all}}
• Savoir Faire, The Road Home, 2012.
• Natural Selection, The Road Home, 2012.
• A Short Submission to the Coroner, Tainted Innocence, 2012.{{Cite web|title = Twisted Stringybark Short Story Award 2012|url = http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Twisted_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award_2012.html|website = www.stringybarkstories.net|accessdate = 2015-11-27|url-status = dead|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160405024837/http://www.stringybarkstories.net/The_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award/Twisted_Stringybark_Short_Story_Award_2012.html|archivedate = 5 April 2016|df = dmy-all}}
• GSOH, Tainted Innocence, 2012.
• The Klara Project Phase 1, The Envelope Please, 2007.

• Simsion, Milton and Shanks: "Data Modeling: Description or Design?" Information and Management, May 2012.
• "Data Modeling: Theory and Practice" by Graeme Simsion, 2007, Technics Publications, {{ISBN|978-0977140015}}
• "Data Modeling Essentials" by Graeme Simsion & Graham Witt, 2004 3rd ed, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco {{ISBN|0126445516}}
• Moody, D and Simsion, G: "Justifying Investment in Information Resource Management", Australian Journal of Information Systems, September 1995.
• "A Structured Approach to Data Modeling", Australian Computer Journal, August,1989.
• Simsion, G.C and Symington, J.A: "A Comparison of Network and Relational Database Architectures in a Commercial Environment", Australian Computer Journal, November 1981.

• Thought Tracker, Producer, Premiere: Westside Shorts, 2013
• Decisions, Writer-Producer, Premiere: Westside Shorts, 2012
• The Prince, Writer-Producer, Premiere: Westside Shorts, 2012
• The Perfect Gift, Writer-Producer, (Director: Carley Sheffield), Premiere: Toronto Urban Film Festival, 2012
• Reason for Living, Producer-Director, Premiere: Bondi Film Festival, 2012
• Push Up, Writer-Producer, (Director: Jason Christou), Premiere: Flickerfest Film Festival, Sydney, 2010
• The Last Bottle, Writer-Producer, (Directors Michael Carsen and Beth Child), Premiere: Zero Film Festival (New York), 2010, ABC Television, 2010
• Transformation, Writer-Producer, (Director: Rebecca Peniston-Bird), Premiere: St Kilda Film Festival, 2009, ABC Television, 2010
• Red Porsche, Writer-Producer, (Director: Chris Wurm), Premiere: Westside Shorts, 2009
• Turning Back the Clocks, Writer-Producer, (Director: Michael Carsen), Premiere: Janison Short and Sharp Film Festival, 2009
• Prisoner's Dilemma, Writer, Premiere: Short and Sweet Festival, Melbourne, 2008
• Hot Water, Writer, Premiere: Defector Theatre, Melbourne, 2008
• Key Change, Writer-Producer, (Director: David Grant), Premiere: Katoomba Film Festival, 2008

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• [http://www.simsion.com/ "Simsion & Associates"]
• {{cite web|last=Evans|first=Kate|title=Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksplus/graeme-simsion27s-the-rosie-project/4517126|publisher=ABC Radio National – Books +|date=24 February 2013}}
• {{cite web|last1=Cathcart|first1=Michael|title=Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Effect|url=http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/booksandartsdaily/graeme-simsion/5870564|publisher=ABC Radio National – Books and Arts Daily|date=6 November 2014}}

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