Barry Jonsberg
Barry Jonsberg (* 1951 as Peter Jonsberg in Liverpool , Great Britain ) is an Australian writer .
Jonsberg studied English and psychology at the University of Liverpool from 1968 to 1982 . He completed both courses with a master’s degree . From 1985 he worked as a teacher. After winning £ 123,000 in the lottery in 1998, Jonsberg moved to Australia in 1999 . Today he lives in seclusion in Darwin in the Northern Territory .
bibliography
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Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull (2004)
- The thing with Kiffo and me , Verlagsgruppe Friedrich Oetinger 2007
- Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne (2005)
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It's not all about YOU, Calma (2007)
- Everything revolves around you , translated by Janka Panskus, Ill.Kerstin Schürmann, Oetinger 2008
- Am I Right or Am I Right? (2007)
- Dreamrider (2008)
- Screamer (2008)
- Ironbark (2008)
- Cassie (2008)
- Being Here (2011)
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My Life as an Alphabet (2013)
- The bubbling of happiness , translated by Ursula Höfker, cbt, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-570-16286-6 .
- Pandora Jones: Admission (2014)
- Pandora Jones: Deception (2014)
- The City of Second Chances (2014)
- Game Theory (2016)
- Pandora Jones: Reckoning (2017)
- A Song Only I Can Hear (2018)
Blacky trilogy
- A Croc Called Capone (2009)
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Dog who Dumped on my Dooma (2010)
- A tough job or How I helped God save , transl. Alexa Hennig von Lange , Ill. Peter Schössow , Oetinger 2010
- Blacky Blasts Back: on the Tail of the Tassie Tiger (2010)
Audio book
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A tough job , spoken by Oliver Rohrbeck
- Audio CD Oetinger 2010
- eAudio Oetinger 2012
Awards
- Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull nominated for the Children's Book Council of Australia's Literature Prize
- 2008 Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull nominated for the LITERAturpreis
- 2006 It's not all about YOU, Calma won South Australian Festival Award
- 2014 LovelyBooks readers' award in the children's book category for Blubbern von Glück
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personal data | |
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SURNAME | Jonsberg, Barry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jonsberg, Peter (birth name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British-Australian writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Liverpool |