Garry Disher

Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) 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 has written three main book series. These include: the Wyatt thrillers about a master thief, the Peninsula Crimes procedurals about Waterloo cops Hal Challis and Ellen Destry, and the Hirsch series about rural police constable Paul Hirschhausen.

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 (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2000: winner for Kickback
 * Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), 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 (German Crime Fiction Award), 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

Novels

 * Steal Away (1987)
 * The Stencil Man (1988)
 * The Sunken Road (1996)
 * Past the Headlands (2001)
 * Play Abandoned (2011)
 * Under the Cold Bright Lights (2017)
 * Her (2017)
 * The Way It Is Now (2021)
 * Sanctuary (2024)

Crime series – The Wyatt novels

 * Kickback (1991)
 * Paydirt (1992)
 * Deathdeal (1993)
 * Crosskill (1994)
 * Port Vila Blues (1996)
 * The Fallout (1997)
 * Wyatt (2010)
 * The Wyatt Butterfly (2010: omnibus containing Port Vila Blues and The Fallout)
 * The Heat (2015)
 * Kill Shot (2018)

Crime series – The Challis and Destry novels, aka the Peninsula Crimes series

 * The Dragon Man (1999)
 * Kittyhawk Down (2003)
 * Snapshot (2005)
 * Chain of Evidence (2007)
 * Blood Moon (2009)
 * Whispering Death (2012)
 * Signal Loss (2016)

Crime series – The Paul "Hirsch" Hirschhausen novels

 * Bitter Wash Road (2013) published in 2014 as Hell to Pay  in the US
 * Peace (2019) published by Text Publishing
 * Consolation (2020) published by Text Publishing
 * Day's End (2022) published by Text Publishing

Short story collections

 * Approaches (1981)
 * The Difference to Me (1988)
 * Flamingo Gate (1991)
 * Straight, Bent and Barbara Vine (crime stories, 1997)

Young adult

 * Blame the Wind (1995)
 * Restless : Stories of Flight & Fear (1995)
 * The Half Dead (1997)
 * The Apostle Bird (1997)
 * The Divine Wind (1999)
 * From Your Friend, Louis Deane (2000)
 * Moondyne Kate (2001)
 * Eva's Angel (2003)
 * Two-Way Cut (2004)

Children's

 * The Bamboo Flute (1992)
 * Ratface (1993)
 * Ermyntrude Takes Charge (1995)
 * Walk Twenty, Run Twenty (1996)
 * Maddie Finn (2002)
 * Switch Cat (1994)

Edited

 * The Man Who Played Spoons (1987)
 * Personal Best (1989)
 * Personal Best 2 (1991)
 * Below the Waterline (1999)

Non-fiction

 * Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers (1981)
 * Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (1983)
 * Bushrangers (1984)
 * Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945 (1985)
 * Australia Then & Now (1987)
 * Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Writing and Marketing (1989)
 * Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft (revised edition) (2001)

Critical studies and reviews of Disher's work

 * Consolaton