Garry Disher

Garry Disher (born 15 August 1949, in Corporate Town of Burra, South Australia) is an Australian author of crime fiction and children's literature. He is a three-time winner of the Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel.

Disher's novels include three series: the Wyatt thrillers about a master thief in Melbourne; the Peninsula Crimes procedurals about Waterloo cops Hal Challis and Ellen Destry on the Mornington Peninsula; and the Hirsch series about police constable Paul Hirschhausen, set in rural South Australia, north of Adelaide.

Awards

The Canberra Times National Short Story Competition, 1986: winner for "Amateur Hour" Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 1993: winner for The Bamboo Flute IBBY Honour Diploma, Writing, 1994 for The Bamboo Flute NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1996: shortlisted for The Sunken Road New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, Ethnic Affairs Commission Award, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Older Readers, 1999: shortlisted for The Divine Wind New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, The Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 1999: winner for The Divine Wind Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2000: winner for Kickback Deutscher Krimi Preis (German Crime Fiction Award), International, 2002: winner for The Dragon Man Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2007: winner for Chain of Evidence Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2010: winner for Wyatt Colin Roderick Award, 2020: shortlisted for Peace Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2021: winner for Consolation Colin Roderick Award, 2021: shortlisted for Consolation Colin Roderick Award, 2025: shortlisted for Sanctuary