Name Stephen Irwin | TV shows Secrets & Lies | |
Books The Dead Path, The Broken Ones Similar People Nathan Mayfield, Martin Henderson, Piper Morrissey | ||
Education Queensland College of Art | ||
Stephen Mark Irwin (born 1966 in Brisbane) is an Australian novelist and filmmaker.
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Biography
Irwin graduated from the Queensland College of Art with tertiary qualifications in Film and Television production.
He is the author of the supernatural thriller, The Dead Path (Published in the UK as The Darkening. The Dead Path was named Top Horror Title in the American Library Association's 2011 reading list and won the Doubleday Book of the Month Club First Fiction Award 2010. Irwin has also won several short story competitions in Australia and overseas, including The Write Stuff and New Millennium Writings. He has had poems published in the Newcastle Poetry Prize anthologies "Sunweight" and "Eclogues". Irwin's second novel, The Broken Ones, was published by Doubleday in 2011.
Films
Irwin wrote and directed a number of short films, including award winning shorts Car Pool (Best Comedy, St Kilda Short Film Festival 2007) and Ascension (Best Short, Sci-Fi-London 2008). He has written and directed documentaries broadcast on Australian television, and has been engaged as a writer of Australian series drama.
Irwin lives in Brisbane, Queensland with his wife and two children.