Shane Maloney
Novelist
Shane Maloney is one of Australia's most popular novelists. His award-winning and much loved Murray Whelan series – Stiff, The Brush-Off, Nice Try, The Big Ask, Something Fishy and Sucked In – is characterised by a strong sense of humour and an acute sense of Melbourne's political and cultural nuances. The seventh and final Murray Whelan novel is due for publication in late 2009.
Shane's work has been published in the UK, Germany, France, Britain, Japan, Finland and the US. Telemovies of Stiff and The Brush-Off, starring David Wenham, were broadcast in 2004, the year he also released the comic phrase book, The Happy Phrase, co-authored with Guy Rundle.
Shane is an honorary visiting fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University.
He is a regular contributor to newspapers, magazines and anthologies. His most recent books are the bind-ups, The Murray Whelan Trilogy (books one to three in the series) and The Next Murray Whelan Trilogy (books four to six).
