![]() It was adapted by Kate Mulvany into a play (which was shortlisted for two Helpmann Awards, three Green Room Awards, two Sydney Theatre Awards, and the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Playwrighting), and then by Shaun Grant into a film (which won an AWGIE Award and was nominated for two AACTA Awards and an Asia Pacific Screen Award). The novel was wildly successful: it won the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards fiction prize, and two Indie Awards (Book of the Year and Fiction), and was shortlisted and longlisted for a range of other national and international prizes, including the Miles Franklin Award, the Dylan Thomas prize, and the Dublin Literary Award. Silvey's next novel, Jasper Jones, was published in 2009. The novel was the inaugural book for the 'One Book' series of events at the 2005 Perth International Arts Festival. Silvery wrote his first novel, Rhubarb, when he was nineteen: it was published in 2004. Craig Silvey grew up on an orchard in Dwellingup, a small town in timber and fruit-growing lands in in south-west Western Australia. ![]()
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