Anson Cameron is a

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-based Australian author, born in

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in 1961. His first published book was a collection of short stories, ''Nice Shootin' Cowboy''. It was short-listed for a

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation has presented a number of prizes since 1987. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best First ...

in 1997. A short film '' Nice Shootin' Cowboy'' was based on the work. His fifth book ''Stealing Picasso'', published in 2009, is a fiction based around the actual theft of one of Pablo Picasso's ''

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'' series of paintings from the

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in 1986. He is a columnist for ''

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''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cameron, Anson Living people 1961 births Australian male short story writers 20th-century Australian novelists 21st-century Australian novelists Writers from Melbourne 20th-century Australian short story writers 21st-century Australian short story writers 20th-century Australian male writers 21st-century Australian male writers People from Shepparton