Victor Kelleher

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Nationality Australian Period 1979 - present		Name Victor Kelleher Role Author

Born 19 July 1939 (age 85) London, England ( 1939-07-19 ) Pen name Veronica Hart (In two books) Occupation Young adult fiction, Children's fiction Genre Fantasy, Science Fiction Awards Aurealis Award for best horror novel Books Taronga, Del‑Del, The Red King, The Ivory Trail, Master of the Grove Similar People Jane Godwin, Rachel Flynn, Bruce Dawe, Craig Smith

Victor Kelleher (born 1939) is an Australian author. Kelleher was born in London and moved to Africa with his parents, at the age of fifteen. He spent the next twenty years travelling and studying in Africa, before moving to New Zealand. Kelleher received a Masters from St Andrew's University and a PhD in English Literature from The University of South Africa has taught in Africa, New Zealand and Australia. While in New Zealand, he began writing part-time, prompted by homesickness for Africa. He moved to Australia in 1976, with his South African wife, Alison, and was Associate Professor at the University of New England, in Armidale, New South Wales, before moving to Sydney to write full-time. Many of the books he has written have been based on his childhood and his travellings in Africa.

Kelleher has won many awards for his books, such as the Australian Children's Book Award

Awards

1993 - COOL Fiction for Older Readers Award (CBCA) won for Del-Del

1992 - nominated- Ditmar Award, Best Novel or Collection award for Brother Night and Del Del

1990 - nominated- Ditmar Award, Best Australian Long Fiction award for The Red King

1988 - nominated- Ditmar Award, Best Australian Long Fiction award for The Makers

1987 - nominated- Ditmar Award, Best Australian Science Fiction or Fantasy Novel award for Taronga

1985 - Ditmar Award, Best Australian Novel award for Beast of Heaven

1983 - Children's Book Council of Australia Award for Book of the Year for Master of the Grove"

Parkland Series

Parkland (1994)-Book 1 of the Parkland Series

Earthsong (1995)-Book 2 of the Parkland Series

Fire Dancer (1996)-Book 3 of the Parkland Series

Gibblewort the Goblin series

Goblin in the Bush (2002)

Goblin on the Reef (2003)

Goblin in the City (2004)

Goblin in the Rainforest (2004)

Goblin at the Zoo (2005)

Goblin in the Snow (2005)

Goblin at the Beach (2007)

Gibblewort the Goblin: The Get Me Outta Here! Collection (2014)

Gibblewort the Goblin: The Winter Escape Collection (2014)

Gibblewort the Goblin: The Summer Holiday Collection (2014)

Novels

Forbidden Paths Of Thual (1979)

Voices from the River (1979)

The Hunting Of Shadroth (1981)

Master Of The Grove (1982)

Africa And After (1983)

Papio (1984)

The Green Piper (1984)

The Beast Of Heaven (1984)

Taronga (1986)

The Makers (1987)

Baily's Bones (1988)

Ern's Story (1988)

The Red King (1989)

Wintering (1990)

Brother Night (1990)

Del-Del (1992)

To The Dark Tower (1992)

Micky Darlin' (1992)

Rescue! An African Adventure (1992)

Where The Whales Sing (1994)

Red Heart (1996)

Storyman (1996)

Slow Burn (1997)

Into The Dark (1999)

Riding The Whales (1999)

The Ivory Trail (1999)

Billy The Baked-Bean Kid (2002)

Born of the Sea (2003)

The Grimes Family (2004)

Dogboy (2006)

Collections

The Traveller: Stories of Two Continents (1988)

Collected Stories (1997)

Aussie Bites

Magic Violin

The Gorilla Suit

Tim and Tig (2007)

What Dino Saw

Picture Books

Johnny Wombat (1996) (with Craig Smith)

Where's God? (2005) (illustrated by Elise Hurst)

Billy the Baked Bean Kid

As Veronica Hart

Double God (1994)

The House That Jack Built

References

Victor Kelleher Wikipedia

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