About
Australian author and journalist who is best known for his novels "The First Third," "The Sidekicks" and "Monuments." He was awarded the 2020 Maurice Saxby Award by the School Library Association of New South Wales for service to children's and young adult literature.
Before Fame
In high school, he won the Sydney Morning Herald Young Writer of the Year prize for a short story called 'Bing Me.' He went on to sign his first book deal in his senior year of high school.
Trivia
His second novel, The First Third, won the 2014 Inky Awards, and was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and Prime Minister's Literary Awards. He has been an ambassador for the NSW Premier's Reading Challenge.
Family Life
His grandmother is Yiayia Filyo. He has an older brother.
Associated With
He and Sean Williams are both novelists from Australia.
