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James Aitchison James Aitchison i(A150762 works by)
Also writes as: James Lee ; David Carrick ; James Wolf
Born: Established: 1944 ;
Gender: Male
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JAMES AITCHISON, also writing as JIM AITCHISON, is an Australian author born 15.3.1944. His first written works were comedy sketches for Channel 7's iconic Mavis Bramston Show, scripts for ABC radio education features, and — under the pseudonym of DAVID CARRICK — a 130-episode quarter-hour radio serial titled Under Her Spell for Grace Gibson Radio Productions in 1974. From 1983 to 2010 he lived in Singapore working in advertising in both English and Chinese. As JIM AITCHISON he wrote the Cutting Edge series of advertising reference books for Pearson Education, and How Asia Advertises for John Wiley & Sons, as well as the lyrics for Singapore national songs.

Since 1998 he has written Asia's top-selling children's horror and mystery books — Mr Midnight and Mr Mystery — under the pseudonym JAMES LEE. His Mr Midnight books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Malay and Indonesian, and have sold over three million copies. In 2013 he was awarded the Literature Prize in the Commonwealth Government's inaugural Australian Arts in Asia Awards, which recognised creativity that built bonds between Australia and Asia.

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Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2013 inaugural winner Australian Arts in Asia Awards Literature for the Mr Midnight/Mr Mystery book series

Awards for Works

Old Branch Line Observed at Castlemaine i "the sleepers", 2016 single work poetry
— Appears in: Australian Poetry Anthology 2016; (p. 15)
2017 shortlisted Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition
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