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Australian author and lawyer (born 1954) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kerry Isabelle Greenwood OAM (born 1954[1]) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger.
Kerry Greenwood | |
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Born | Kerry Isabelle Greenwood 1954 (age 69–70) Footscray, Victoria, Australia |
Occupation | Writer, locum solicitor |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Education | BA, LL.B |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Genre | Crime, historical, science-fiction |
Notable works | Phryne Fisher series |
Partner | David Greagg |
Greenwood grew up in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray, where she still lives today. She attended Geelong Road State School (now Footscray Primary School), Maribyrnong College and the University of Melbourne, where she graduated with Bachelor of Arts (English) and Bachelor of Laws degrees in 1979. Whilst at university, Greenwood worked at a women's refuge.
In 1982, Greenwood was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria, and worked full-time as a criminal defence lawyer for Victoria Legal Aid until becoming a professional writer. Since that time, she has remained a locum duty solicitor for Legal Aid, practising in the Sunshine Magistrates' Court.[2]
She began writing books at sixteen, but remained unpublished. In 1988 she entered one of her eight novels for the Vogel prize; although not successful, one of the judges offered her a contract for two detective novels.[2]
In the 2020 Australia Day Honours Greenwood was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM).[3]
Greenwood lives with a "wizard",[4][5][6] the mathematician and author David Greagg.[7]
The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.
"Jetsam" (1998) in Dreaming Down-Under (ed. Jack Dann, Janeen Webb)
The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries television series was filmed in and around Melbourne in 2011 and premiered on ABC1 on 24 February 2012. A second series was commissioned in August 2012 and filming began in February 2013 and aired starting 6 September 2013.[22] A third series was commissioned in June 2014 and began airing on 8 May 2015.
A film that continues the story started in the television series was released in 2022: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears.
The TV series was redone by HBO Asia in 2020 as Miss S, set in Shanghai in the 1930s instead of Melbourne in the 1920s.[23] The show was filmed in Mandarin, Miss Phryne Fisher was renamed as Su Wenli, Inspector Robinson was renamed as Luo Qiuheng, and Dorothy 'Dot' Williams was renamed as Xiao Tao Zi.[24]
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