Roger McDonald
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Roger McDonald (born 1941, in Young, New South Wales, Australia) is a writer, poet and novelist.
He attended Scots College and the University of Sydney. He worked as a teacher, and an educational radio and television producer with the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Brisbane and Hobart, before taking up a position as an editor with the University of Queensland Press in 1969. In 1976 McDonald moved to Canberra and took up writing full-time.
McDonald was shortlisted for the 1993 Miles Franklin Award for his book, Shearers' Motel, however the book was withdrawn from consideration for the prize on the basis that it had been considered for other awards as non-fiction. He was nominated again in 1994 for Water Man, and in 1999 for Mr Darwin's Shooter. His novel, The Ballad of Desmond Kale, won the award in 2006.
[edit] Bibliography
Novels
- 1915 (1979)
- Slipstream (1982)
- Melba (1988)
- Rough Wallaby (1988)
- Flynn (1992)
- Water Man (1993)
- The Slap(1996)
- Mr Darwin's Shooter (1998)
- The Ballad of Desmond Kale (2006)
Non-Fiction
- Mike Willesee's Australians (1988)
- Reflecting Labour: Images of Myth and Origin Over 100 Years (1991)
- Shearers' Motel (1992)
- The Tree in Changing Light (2001)
Poetry
Edited
Television Scripts
- Melba (1988)
