Robert Drewe

Robert Drewe grew up on the West Australian coast, the setting for his best-selling memoir, The Shark Net.  His  many novels, including The Drowner,  Our Sunshine, Grace  and Fortune,  and his short-story collections,  The Bodysurfers  and The Bay of Contented Men, have been widely translated, won national and international  prizes, and been adapted for film, television, radio and theatre around the world.

The Drowner made Australian literary history by winning the Premiers'  literary awards in every State, as well as the Adelaide Festival Prize and the Book of the Year.  Our Sunshine was made into the film Ned Kelly, starring Heath Ledger, while The Shark Net and The Bodysurfers were adapted  for ABC and BBC television mini-series.  The Drowner is currently being adapted by Mel Gibson’s Icon Company into a major film set in Western Australia.

Before turning to fiction, Robert Drewe won two Walkley Awards for journalism. He was awarded a Prime Minister’s Creative Artists’ Fellowship and holds honorary doctorates in literature from the Universities of Western Australia and Queensland.

His book, The Rip, was recently published by Hamish Hamilton/Penguin, while Grace is currently being adapted for the theatre by Fremantle’s Deckchair Theatre Company. And The Bodysurfers, in print for the past 25 years, has just been made a Penguin Modern Classic.

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