About Garry

BIOGRAPHY

Garry Disher has published over 50 highly praised, prize-winning and widely translated books in a range of genres: crime thrillers, literary/general novels, short-story collections, YA/children’s fiction, and writers’ handbooks.  His growing international reputation has seen him tour Germany and the United States, where his crime and YA novels have appeared on best-books-of-the-year lists and won various awards.  His latest titles include a literary novel, Her, the ninth Wyatt thriller, Kill Shot, the stand-alone crime novel, The Way it is Now, and Day’s End, the fourth in his best-selling and prize-winning Hirsch series.

AWARDS

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 Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, 2021

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Winner, Crime Novel of the Year, Germany 2020

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 Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award, 2018

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 Winner, German Crime Fiction Award, 2016

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 Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, 2010

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 Winner, Ned Kelly Award for Crime Fiction, 2007

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 Winner, German Crime Fiction Award, 2002

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 Winner, German Crime Fiction Award, 2002

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 Winner, NSW Premiers Award, 1999