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G McDougall
Garry is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author, with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. With extensive travel and teaching experince he won Australian ecotourism, community project and lite...view moreGarry is the Camino de Santiago's most prolific author, with ten eBooks and several paperbacks. With extensive travel and teaching experince he won Australian ecotourism, community project and literary prizes and grants, including cocreating the Official NSW Bicentennial Project, 'Great North Walk'. After many years proprietorship of Great Australian Walks, he focused on* photography and painting exhibitions* poetry performance and articles in popular and literary media* writing novels, four so far.Recent Awards: WINNER, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, 2015, with 'Patting the Dog', included in 'Inner Flash';Highly Commended, Peter Cowan Short Story Prize, 2013; Second, National Poetry Prize, 2014.His first novel, 'Belonging', is a fictional-biography of a 'black doctor' in colonial Australia.His second, 'Starts With C' is a murder mystery where we don't who is the murder, who has been murdered, and whose telling the story. It's a genre turned upside-down, Down-Under Down-Under!The third novel is 'Knowing Simone', set in Victor Hugo's France. The fourth is 'Blacksmith and Canon', at the time of Michelangelo, Machiavelli and the decay of knights.Garry is past president of the Balmain Institute, a member of 'That Authors Collective' and 'Diverse' poetry group. He lives in the great and beautiful Sydney.view less