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Roger Vaughan Carr Roger Vaughan Carr i(A32549 works by)
Born: Established: 6 Nov 1937 Melbourne, Victoria, ; Died: Ceased: 14 Apr 2013 Melbourne, Victoria,
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Roger Vaughan Carr wrote extensively for children, including school reading texts and novels for adolescents, and contributed stories to the Victorian School Paper.

The son of an overland drover, Carr attended various primary schools across Victoria, and was a boarder at Brighton Grammar School. He completed his schooling at Frankston High School at fifteen. Illness prevented him from a sporting career and he saw writing as the most creative avenue for himself. His first short story was published in the Sydney Bulletin in 1957, he contributed children's stories for the Victorian School Paper and his first adolescent novel, Surfie, was published in 1966.

In the late 1960s Carr wrote television scripts for the ABC drama Bellbird and comedy sketches for In Melbourne Tonight. During the 1970s he wrote over 28 children's books, mainly school readers, and the screenplay of the telemovie Dead Man's Float from his book of the same name. Carr's most successful children's book was Firestorm! written as a result of the 1983 Ash Wednesday bushfires which destroyed his home in Aireys Inlet.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Carr is also the author of textbooks. For information about this author's works for children not included in AustLit, see Australian Children's Books by Marcie Muir and Kerry White (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1992-2003).

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Clinker Ferntree Gully : Houghton Mifflin , 1989 Z552044 1989 single work novel young adult
1990 commended Australian Family Therapists' Award for Children's Literature
1991 winner The TDK Australian Audio Book Awards Children's and Young Adult Literature
y separately published work icon The Split Creek Kids Sydney : Martin Educational Ashton Scholastic , 1988 Z832468 1988 single work children's fiction children's
1989 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
y separately published work icon Firestorm! Melbourne : Nelson , 1985 Z830849 1985 single work novel young adult
1986 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year Award
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