Archie Weller

Archie Weller (born 1957) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.

Early life and education Archie Weller was born in 1957 in Subiaco, Western Australia, and grew up on a farm, Wonnenup, near Cranbrook in the Great Southern region of the state.

He attended Guildford Grammar School in Perth as a boarder.

Weller's second novel, a fantasy novel entitled Land of the Golden Clouds, was published in 1998.

Recognition and awards The Day of the Dog won the 1980 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award and in 1982 the inaugural Prose Fiction award in the Western Australia Week Literary Awards(now Western Australian Premier's Book Awards).

In 1983 Weller received the FAW Patricia Weickhardt Award to an Aboriginal Writer.

In 1993 The Day of the Dog was made into a film entitled Blackfellas, directed by James Ricketson and co-written by the director and Weller. It won two AFI Awards in 1993.

The script Confessions of a Headhunter, which Weller co-wrote with Sally Riley, won an award in the 2001 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, the Cinema Nova Award, and the 2000 Australian Film Institute Awards for Best Short Fiction Film, and the 2001 Film Critics Circle of Australia award for Best Short Film.