Kel Robertson is an Australian 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, with Deep Water by Peter Corris.
Kel Robertson | |
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| Born | Kel Robertson 1950s New South Wales, Australia |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Known for | Smoke and Mirrors |
| Website | http://kelrobertson.net.au/main/page_home.html |
Robertson lived in Sydney and various 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 </ref> Austlit - Kel Robertson</ref> and has completed a fourth Chen book. He is the author also of two bureaucratic black comedies under the pen name A C Bland, as well as a futuristic crime novel under the pen name Belle Currer.
Novels edit
- Dead Set (2006)
- Smoke and Mirrors (2008)
- Rip Off (2011)
- The Final Trials of Alan Mewling (2016)
- The Earlier Trials of Alan Mewling (2019)
- Dare to Think (2019): a dystopian crime novel featuring the Cornwall Police Inspector, Melissa Raeburn.
Awards edit
- 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
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