Biography

McRobbie was born in Glasgow

Glasgow

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, Scotland

Scotland

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 in 1934. In 1958 he moved to Australia and worked as a teacher in the 1960s in Papua New Guinea

Papua New Guinea

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. He is currently a full-time writer but has previously worked as a television and radio producer, a ship's engineer, and a college lecturer. McRobbie's first published work was in 1976 with a collection of stories, entitled Talking Tree and Other Stories. In 1991 he started writing the series of Wayne which he adapted in 1996 into a television series entitled The Wayne Manifesto. In 2000 he created the television series Eugenie Sandler P.I.

Eugénie Sandler P.I.

Eugénie Sandler P.I. is an 13 part Australian children's series that first aired on ABC1 in 2000. The series stars Xaris Miller as the title character. The show now airs on ABC3 in an afternoon timeslot.- Overview :...

and was short-listed for the Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award

Children's Book Council of Australia

The Children's Book Council of Australia is a not for profit organisation which aims to engage the community with literature for young Australians. The CBCA presents annual awards for books of literary merit, for outstanding contribution to Australian children's literature.-Awards:The first...

 for older readers for his novel, Tyro. In 2002 his novel Mum, Me, and the 19th C was a finalist for the Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel.

Novels

Wayne

• The Wayne Manifesto (1991)
• Waxing with Wayne (1993)
• The Wayne Dynasty (1993)
• The Wages Of Wayne (1994)
• Wayne in the Wings (1994)
• A Whole Lot of Wayne (2008)

Other novels

• Punch Lines (1987)
• Head Over Heels (1990)
• The Fourth Caution (1991)
• This Book Is Haunted (1993)
• Timelock (1993)
• Mandragora
  Mandragora (novel)
  Mandragora by David McRobbie is a contemporary novel with links to a historic shipwreck, the sinking of the Dunarling. Adam and Catriona have found a cache of four small dolls made from mandrake roots. The dolls were left in the cave by two other teenagers, James and Margaret, who had survived...
  
  (1994)
• Prices (1995)
• See How They Run (1996)
• Mum, Me, the 19c (1999)
• Tyro (1999)
• Eugenie Sandler P.I. (2000)
• Fergus Mcphail (2001)
• Mum, Me, and the 19th C (2002)
• Strandee (2003)
• Mad Arm of the Y (2005)
• Vinnie's War (2011)

Collections

• Talking Tree and Other Stories (1976)
• Flying with Granny and Other Stories (1989)

Short fiction

• "Album" (1995) in Dark House (ed. Gary Crew
  Gary Crew
  -Life:Gary Crew was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 23 September 1947. An illness during childhood kept him home from school but enabled him to develop an interest in reading adventure stories....
  
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Source: Fantastic Fiction, ISFDB

Television

• The Wayne Manifesto
  The Wayne Manifesto
  The Wayne Manifesto is an Australian children's television series that aired on the ABC in 1996. Based on the children's books by David McRobbie, it is centred around the life 12-year-old Wayne Wilson, showing the world both as the way he would like it and the way it really is...
  
  (1996–1997) writer of 26 episodes, adapted from the Wayne series
• See How They Run (1999) adapted from McRobbie's 1996 novel See How They Run
• Eugenie Sandler P.I.
  Eugénie Sandler P.I.
  Eugénie Sandler P.I. is an 13 part Australian children's series that first aired on ABC1 in 2000. The series stars Xaris Miller as the title character. The show now airs on ABC3 in an afternoon timeslot.- Overview :...
  
  (2000) creator and writer
• Fergus McPhail
  Fergus McPhail
  Fergus McPhail is an Australian children's comedy series that was released on Network Ten in 2004.-Plot summary:Fergus McPhail stumbles from crisis to crisis mostly of his own making. His irrationally optimistic alter-ego acts as his conscience...
  
  (2004) creator and writer of 26 episodes

Source: IMDB

Nominations

Aurealis Awards

• Best young-adult novel
  • 2002: Nomination: Mum, Me, and the 19th C

Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award

• Older Readers
  Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers
  The Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers has been presented annually since 1946 by the Children's Book Council of Australia . Note: from 1946 to 1986 this award was known as "Book of the Year"....
  
  
  • 2000: Nomination: Tyro