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Matthew Condon
Born1962 (age 62–63)
NationalityAustralian

Matthew Condon (born 1962) is a prize-winning Australian writer and journalist.

Biography

Educated at the University of Queensland and the Goethe Institute, Bremen, Germany,[1] he is the author of ten novels and short story collections, including The Lulu Magnet, A Night at the Pink Poodle, The Motorcycle Cafe, The Pillow Fight and, most recently, The Trout Opera,[2] an epic novel that took him more than ten years to write and examines the Australian character through its chief protagonist, Wilfred Lampe, a rabbiter and farm hand who spends his entire life in the township of Dalgety, on the banks of the Snowy River. The Sydney Daily Telegraph described the novel as "an instant classic". The novel will be published by Doubleday in the UK in 2009.

Condon, who now writes for The Courier-Mail and is the father of two children, is based in Brisbane, Australia.

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Motorcycle Cafe, 1988
  • Usher, 1991
  • The Ancient Guild of Tycoons, 1994
  • A Night at the Pink Poodle, 1995
  • The Pillow Fight, 1998
  • Lime Bar, 2001
  • The Trout Opera, 2007
  • Mulligan: On Being a Hack Golfer, 2007

Short fiction

  • "Tattoo" (1996) in Original Sin (ed. Robyn Sheahan)

Short story collections

  • The Lulu Magnet, 1996

Non-Fiction

  • Brisbane, 2010, written about the city Brisbane, where Matthew grew up.

Children's Fiction

  • The Tunnel, 1997

Edited

  • Smashed: Australian Drinking Stories, 1996

Awards and nominations

References

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