Name Philip McLaren | Role Author | |
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Books Sweet water‑stolen land, Scream black murder, There'll be new dreams, Murder in Utopia, Lightning mine | ||
Philip McLaren (born 1943) is an indigenous Australian author and academic known for literary fiction, detective stories and thrillers. He has also written non-fiction, social commentary, screenplays and academic essays. Of his seven novels, four have been translated and distributed internationally. 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.
Sweet Water - Stolen Land received the 1992 David Unaipon Award for Australian indigenous literature. 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.
He lives in the Byron Bay area of New South Wales and is a lecturer at Southern Cross University.