Barry Jonsberg (born 1951) is an Australian
author
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and teacher who was born in
Liverpool
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, England. He earned two degrees in English and Psychology from
Liverpool University and was a college lecturer in
Crewe, Cheshire before moving to
Australia
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in 1999.
His book ''The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull'' was shortlisted for the 2005 Children's Book Council Awards in the Older Readers category and was given a special mention the 2005 White Ravens Selection of International Children's and Youth Literature. ''It's not all about YOU, Calma'' won the 2006 South Australian Festival Award for Children's Literature.
Dreamrider' was shortlisted for the 2007 NSW Premier's Award. ''The Dog that Dumped on my Doona'' was shortlisted for the Territory Read Literature Award 2008. ''My Life as an Alphabet'' won the 2013
Children's Peace Literature Award for older readers. His 2022 book, ''A Little Spar''k, was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature at the 2023
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
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. ''Smoke & Mirrors'' was shortlisted for the Young Adult Book Award at the 2024
Queensland Literary Awards and for the 2025
Victorian Premier's Prize for Writing for Young Adults and Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature.
Books
* ''The Whole Business with Kiffo and the Pitbull'' (2005)
* ''The Crimes and Punishments of Miss Payne'' (2005)
* ''It's not all about YOU, Calma'' (2005)
* ''Dreamrider'' (2006)
* ''Am I Right or Am I Right?'' (2007)
* ''The Dog that Dumped on my Doona'' (August 2008)
* ''Ironbark'' (2008)
* ''Cassie'' (2008)
* ''A Croc Called Capone'' (March 2009)
* ''Blacky Blasts Back: On the Tail of the Tassie Tiger'' (January 2010)
* Being Here (2011)
* H is for Happiness
* ''My Life As An Alphabet'' (2013) Released September 2014 in America as ''The Categorical Universe of Candice Phee''
* ''The City of Second Chances'' (2014)
* ''Pandora Jones: Admission'' (2014)
* Pandora Jones: Deception (2014)
* Pandora Jones: Reckoning (2015)
* Game Theory (2016)
* ''A Song Only I Can Hear'' (2018)
* ''Catch me if I fall'' (2020)
* ''A Little Spark'' (2022)
* ''Smoke & Mirrors'' (2023)
References
External links
Official website
1951 births
Alumni of the University of Liverpool
Australian children's writers
Living people
English emigrants to Australia
Writers from Liverpool
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