Philip McLaren

Philip McLaren (born 1943) is an indigenous Australian author and academic known for literary fiction, detective stories and thrillers.[1] He has also written non-fiction, social commentary, screenplays and academic essays. Of his seven novels, four have been translated and distributed internationally. Sweet Water - Stolen Land received the 1992 David Unaipon Award for Australian indigenous literature.[2] Murder in Utopia (published in some countries as Utopia) won the 2010 Prix Litteraire des Recits de l'ailleurs, a French prize for foreign literature.[3] He lives in the Byron Bay area of New South Wales and is a lecturer at Southern Cross University.[4]

Background

He holds a Doctor of Creative Arts degree, has lectured in Canada, England, France, Spain, Germany, New Zealand and Australia. He has also worked as a professional musician and exhibited paintings and sculpture in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Nassau and Sydney.

He worked as a writer, producer, director and editor in film and television; and previously as a set designer, animator, illustrator, graphic designer and scenic artist for networks NBC, CBS and ABC in the USA; CBC and CTV in Canada and the Seven, Nine and Ten Networks in Australia as well the NZBC in New Zealand. He has amassed well over 100 on-screen credits.

Books
  • Sweet Water - Stolen Land (University of Queensland Press, 1993) - historical fiction
  • Scream Black Murder (HarperCollins, 1995) - crime fiction[5]
  • Lightning Mine (HarperCollins, 1999) - thriller
  • There’ll be New Dreams (Magabala Books, 2001) - historical fiction
  • Murder in Utopia
  • West of Eden

References
  1. Ramsland, John; Marie Ramsland (2012). "Arthur Upfield and Philip McLaren: Pioneering Partners in Australian Ethnographic Crime Fiction". In Jean Anderson; Carolina Miranda; Barbara Pezzotti (eds.). The Foreign in International Crime Fiction: Transcultural Representations. Bloomsbury. pp. 99ff.
  2. Heiss, Anita (2003). To Talk Straight: Publishing Indigenous Literature. Aboriginal Studies Press. p. 148.
  3. Yeoman, William (March 25, 2010). "Utopia wins French prize". The West Australian/Yahoo News. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  4. "Philip McLaren". Melbourne Writers Festival. 2009. Archived from the original on 10 March 2011. Retrieved 6 February 2014.
  5. Tony Smith (2002), "Keeper of Dreams: review — Review of Scream Black Murder Philip McLaren 1995 novel ; There'll be New Dreams Philip McLaren 2001 novel", Australian Book Review, issue 238
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