Kel Robertson

Kel Robertson is an Australian crime novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel Smoke & Mirrors shared the 2009 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel award with Deep Water by Peter Corris.

Kel Robertson
Born
Kel Robertson

1950s
New South Wales, Australia
NationalityAustralian
Occupationnovelist
Known forSmoke and Mirrors
Websitehttp://kelrobertson.net.au/main/page_home.html

Robertson lived in Sydney and a number of New South Wales country towns before entering high school in Bathurst. He has studied at a number of tertiary institutions and lives in Canberra.

He is the author of three novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen.[1]

Novels

  • Dead Set (2006)
  • Smoke and Mirrors (2008)
  • Rip Off (2011)
  • The Final Trials of Alan Mewling (2016):the first of two civil service black comedies.
  • The Earlier Trials of Alan Mewling (2019): the second civil service black comedy.
  • Dare to Think (2019): a dystopian crime novel featuring the Cornwall Police Inspector, Melissa Raeburn.

Awards

  • 2006 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards — Best First Novel for Dead Set
  • 2009 winner Ned Kelly Awards — Best Novel for Smoke and Mirrors
  • 2009 winner ACT Writers Centre's Literary Awards — Fiction for Smoke and Mirrors
  • 2009 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing for Smoke and Mirrors

References


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