Kel Robertson
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 |
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.
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
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