David McRobbie(I)
- Writer
David Hewitt McRobbie was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1934. In 1958 he moved to Australia and worked as a teacher in the 1960s in Papua New Guinea. He is a full-time writer but has previously worked as a television and radio producer, a ship's engineer, and a college lecturer. David's first published work was in 1976 with a collection of stories entitled Talking Tree and Other Stories. In 1991 he started writing the series Wayne, which he adapted in 1996 into a television series entitled The Wayne Manifesto. In 2000 he created the television series Eugenie Sandler P.I. He was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award for older readers for his novel, Tyro. In 2002 his novel Mum, Me, and the 19th C was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for Best Young-Adult Novel.