Darren Williams | AustLit: Discover Australian Stories

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Darren Williams Darren Williams (A28547 works by) (a.k.a. Darren John Williams)
Born: Established: 1967 Lismore, Lismore - Goonellabah, Lismore area, Far Northeast NSW, New South Wales, ;

Gender: Male

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BiographyHistory

Darren Williams grew up in country New South Wales. His first novel Swimming in Silk which won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1994, is set in a small Queensland coastal town in high summer. A quartet of young people spend a week in a ramshackle house in the rainforest, and during this time undercurrents and tensions surface, bringing a quality of dread to the novel.

Williams's second novel, Angel Rock, published 7 years later in 2001 was written while Williams was in London. This crime fiction novel, set in the late 60s was inspired by young children lost in the Australian bush and tells of two brothers going missing in the rainforest in northern New South Wales.