Garry Disher

Garry Disher (born August 15, 1949 in Burra , South Australia ) is an Australian writer .

In addition to prose and detective novels, Garry Disher also writes children's, youth and non-fiction books, for example on Australian history. He studied at the Universities of Adelaide, La Trobe, and Monash and was an Australian Creative Writing Fellow at Stanford University in 1978/79 . His first novel was published in 1987. In Germany he was best known for his detective novels, especially for the series about the professional criminal Wyatt and Inspector Challis. His crime novel Kaltes Licht (2019) was once again number 1 on the list of the ten best new crime novels in September 2019.

Disher lives with his family on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria .

Works

Novels

Wyatt novels

• 1991 Kickback (Wyatt novel 1)
  • Gier , German by Gabriele Bärtels, Berlin: Maas 1999. ISBN 3-929010-49-6
• 1992 Paydirt (Wyatt novel 2)
  • Dreck , German by Bettina Seifried, Berlin: Maas 2000, ISBN 3-929010-72-0
• 1993 Deathdeal (Wyatt novel 3)
  • Ambush , German by Bettina Seifried, Berlin: Pulpmaster 2002, ISBN 3-929010-73-9
• 1994 Crosskill (Wyatt novel 4)
  • Willkür , German by Bettina Seifried, Berlin: Pulpmaster 2004. ISBN 3-929010-54-2
• 1995 Port Vila Blues (Wyatt novel 5)
  • Port Vila Blues , German by Ango Laina and Angelika Müller, Berlin: Pulpmaster 2006. ISBN 3-927734-34-9
  • also: Vergeltung , same translation, Munich: Knaur 2007. ISBN 3-426-62304-8
• 1997 The Fallout (Wyatt novel 6)
  • Precipitation , German by Ango Laina and Angelika Müller; Berlin: Pulpmaster 2008. ISBN 978-3-927734-37-1
• 1997 (with Shaun Tan) The Half Dead
• 2010 Wyatt (Wyatt novel 7)
  • Dirty Old Town , German by Ango Laina and Angelika Müller, Berlin: Pulpmaster 2011. ISBN 978-3-927734-46-3
• 2015 Heat (Wyatt novel 8)
  • Heat , German by Ango Laina and Angelika Müller, Berlin: Pulpmaster 2019. ISBN 978-3-927734-95-1

Inspector Challis

• 1999 The Dragonman
  • Drachenmann , German by Peter Friedrich, Zurich: Union 2001. ISBN 3-293-00292-7 .
• 2003 Kittyhawk Down
  • Flugrausch , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2005. ISBN 3-293-00352-4 .
• 2005 snapshot
  • Snapshot , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2006. ISBN 3-293-00363-X .
• 2007 Chain of Evidence
  • Chain of evidence , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2009. ISBN 3-293-00401-6 .
• 2009 Blood Moon
  • Rostmond , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2010. ISBN 978-3-293-00420-7 .
• 2013 Whispering Death
  • Leiser Tod , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2018. ISBN 978-3-293-00528-0 .
• 2016 signal loss

Others

• 1987 Steal Away
• 1987 The Stencil Man
• 1996 The Sunken Road
• 2000 From Your Friend, Louis Deane
• 2001 Past the Headlands
  • Behind the islands , German by Peter Torberg , Zurich: Union 2003. ISBN 3-293-00319-2 .
• 2001 Moondyne Kate
• 2002 Maddie Finn
• 2013 Bitter Wash Road
  • Bitter Wash Road , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2016. ISBN 978-3-293-00500-6 .
• 2017 Under the Cold Bright Lights
  • Kaltes Licht , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2019. ISBN 978-3-29300550-1 .
• 2019 Peace
  • Hope Hill Drive , German by Peter Torberg, Zurich: Union 2020. ISBN 978-3-293-00563-1 .

Books for children and young readers

• 1992 The Bamboo Flute
• 1993 Ratface
• 1994 Switch Cat
• 1995 Restless - Stories of Flight and Fear
• 1995 Ermyntrude Takes Charge
• 1995 Blame the Wind
• 1996 Walk Twenty, Run Twenty
• 1999 The Divine Wind
• 1997 The Apostle Bird
• 2003 Eva's Angel
• 2004 two-way cut

Non-fiction

• 1981 Wretches and Rebels: The Australian Bushrangers
• 1983 Writing Fiction: An Introduction to the Craft
• 1984 Bushrangers
• 1985 Total War: The Home Front, 1939-1945
• 1987 Australia Then & Now
• 1989 Writing Professionally: The Freelancer's Guide to Marketing Prose And Scripts

Awards

• 1993: Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Younger Readers for The Bamboo Flute
• 1996: Nomination for the National Book Council Award For Fiction for The Sunken Road
• 1998: Nomination for the National Festival Award for Literature - Fiction for The Sunken Road
• 1999: Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature for The Divine Wind
• 2000: German Crime Prize for Greed
• 2002: German Crime Prize for Dragon Man
• 2007: Ned Kelly Award for Chain of Evidence
• 2010: Ned Kelly Award for Wyatt
• 2016: KrimiZEIT best list (best crime novel of the year) for Bitter Wash Road
• 2017: German Crime Prize (3rd place) for Bitter Wash Road
• 2018: Ned Kelly Lifetime Achievement Award

Web links

• Literature by and about Garry Disher in the catalog of the German National Library
• official homepage
• Garry Disher site Flinders University South Australia - abandoned in 1999 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crime best list Sep. 2019 , deutschlandfunkkultur.de, accessed September 4, 2019