Craig Silvey
Craig Silvey is an author and screenwriter from Fremantle, Western Australia. His critically acclaimed debut novel, Rhubarb, was published in 2004, and was followed by his bestselling novel, Jasper Jones in 2009. Now considered a modern Australian classic and published in over a dozen territories, Jasper Jones has won plaudits in three continents, including an International Dublin Literary Award shortlisting, a Michael J. Printz Award Honor, a Miles Franklin Literary Award shortlisting, and the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year for 2010.
Craig's third novel Honeybee was published in 2019 and won Best Fiction for the Indie Book Awards 2021 and Dymock's Book of the Year 2020. Winner of the 2023 CBCA Book of the Year for Younger Readers, Runt was published in 2022; its sequel Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping will be published in 2025.
Craig will be appearing at the following events: