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Graeme Simsion
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Nationality
Australian, NZ, UK
Spouse
Anne Buist
Role
Author
Name
Graeme Simsion
Children
2
Occupation
Author, consultancy manager, data modeller
Notable awards
2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award2014 Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year
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Career
Simsion won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project. Text Publishing has sold the rights to the book internationally for over $1.8m. The Rosie Project was published in Australia in January 2014, and has since sold more than three and a half million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote The Rosie Project as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel to The Rosie Project, titled The Rosie Effect, was published on 24 September 2014 by Text Publishing. Simsion’s third novel, The Best of Adam Sharp, about a relationship rekindled, was published by Text Publishing in 2016 with rights so far sold in fourteen countries and movie rights optioned to Toni Collette’s company Vocab Films. Simsion’s fourth novel is a collaboration with his wife, Anne Buist, titled Two Steps Forward, a story of middle-aged renewal set on the Chemin de St Jacques / Camino de Santiago. It is due to be published by Text Publishing in October 2017.
Prior to writing fiction he was an information systems consultant and wrote two books and several papers about data-modelling. He established a consulting business in 1982 and sold it in 1999. At that time Simsion Bowles and Associates had over seventy staff. He co-founded a wine distribution business, Pinot Now with Steven Naughton. In 2006 he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in the area of data modeling.
He is married to Professor Anne Buist and has two children.
Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Award 2012 second with his story Eulogy for a Sinner
Stringybark Short Story Award 2012 three Highly Commended stories that appear in the book The Road Home
Twisted Stringybark Award 2012 two Highly Commended stories that appear in the book Tainted Innocence
Stringybark Flash Fiction Award 2012 one Highly Commended story, Cutting that appears in the book Behind the Wattles
Fellowship of Australian Writers Jennifer Burbidge Award 2007 one Highly Commended story, The Klara Project – Phase 1 that appears in the book The Enveloope Please 2007
DAMA 2003 Professional Achievement Award
Fellow of the Australian Computer Society 1998
Novels
Two Steps Forward, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2017 ISBN 9781925498776
The Best of Adam Sharp, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2016 ISBN 9781925355888
The Rosie Effect, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014 ISBN 9781922182104
The Rosie Project, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2012 ISBN 9781922079770
Short Stories
Intervention on the Number 3 Tram, Review of Australian Fiction, 2017.
Like It Was Yesterday, Review of Australian Fiction, 2015.
The Life and Times of Greasy Joe, The Big Issue, 2015.
A Visit to the Other Side, Conde Nast Traveller, 2013.
Three Encounters with the Physical, The Age Short Story Award, 2013.
Cutting, Behind the Wattles, 2012.
Eulogy for a Sinner, Seven Deadly Sins, 2012.
A Confession in Three Parts, The Road Home, 2012.
Savoir Faire, The Road Home, 2012.
Natural Selection, The Road Home, 2012.
A Short Submission to the Coroner, Tainted Innocence, 2012.
GSOH, Tainted Innocence, 2012.
The Klara Project Phase 1, The Envelope Please, 2007.
Technical
Simsion, Milton and Shanks: "Data Modeling: Description or Design?" Information and Management, May 2012.
"Data Modelling: Theory and Practice" by Graeme Simsion, 2007, Technics Publications, ISBN 978-0977140015
"Data Modelling Essentials" by Graeme Simsion & Graham Witt, 2004 3rd ed, Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco ISBN 0126445516
Moody, D and Simsion, G: "Justifying Investment in Information Resource Management", Australian Journal of Information Systems, September 1995.
"A Structured Approach to Data Modelling", Australian Computer Journal, August,1989.
Simsion, G.C and Symington, J.A: "A Comparison of Network and Relational Database Architectures in a Commercial Environment", Australian Computer Journal, November 1981.
Short Films and Plays
Thought Tracker, Producer, Premiere: Westside Shorts, 2013
