At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.

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• Garry Disher:

  A good writer can set a thriller anywhere and make it convincing: the trick is to evoke the setting

• Garry Disher:

  From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, a

• Garry Disher:

  Chopper Read attended a writing school I gave for inmates at Risdon Prison in Hobart many years ago

• Garry Disher:

  Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade fo

• Garry Disher:

  I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the

• Garry Disher:

  To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not re

• Garry Hynes:

  I remember thinking, 'I can't act.' Pretending to be someone else is a terrifying thought. The thin

• Garry Hynes:

  I was born in Ballaghadreen, but I grew up in Galway, and when I went to the University College of

• Garry Hynes:

  My father, Oliver Hynes, was an educator. He was originally just a teacher, a very good one, but th

• Garry Hynes:

  I think I'm attracted to writers who tell us something about ourselves.