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Andrew Nette Andrew Nette i(A135722 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Andrew Nette is a Melbourne-based writer who has worked as a journalist, and as a communications consultant for the United Nations and a number of non-governmental organisations. He lived in Southeast Asia for six years in the nineties, based in Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand.

He is the author of two crime novels, and a range of critical and non-fiction works, with a particular focus on pulp fiction and publishing.

In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, he is the author of a monograph on Canadian director Norman Jewison's 1975 film Rollerball (Columbia University Press, 2018) and, with Iain McIntyre, the editor of the Locus- and Aurealis-Award-winning Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 shortlisted Ditmar Awards William Atheling Jr Award with Iain McIntyre, for editing Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985, PM Press.
2022 nominated British Fantasy Awards Non-Fiction with Iain McIntyre, for 'Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985'.
2022 joint winner Locus Awards Non-fiction with Iain McIntyre, for Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback London : Anthem Press , 2022 22943875 2022 single work criticism

'This book explores the history of Horwitz Publications, one of Australia’s largest post-war pulp publishers. Although best known for its cheaply produced, sometimes luridly packaged softcover books, Horwitz Publications played a far larger role in mainstream Australian publishing than has been recognised, particularly in the expansion of the paperback that took place from the late 1950s onwards.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 highly commended ASAL Awards Alvie Egan Award
y separately published work icon Ghost Money Cambodian Light and Darkness 2010 United States of America (USA) : Snubnose Press , 2012 Z1722661 2010 single work novel crime

'Cambodia, 1996, the long-running Khmer Rouge insurgency is fragmenting, competing factions of an unstable coalition government scrambling to gain the upper hand. Missing in the chaos is businessman Charles Avery. Hired to find him is Vietnamese Australian ex-cop Max Quinlan.

'But Avery has made dangerous enemies and Quinlan is not the only one looking. Teaming up with Heng Sarin, a local journalist, Quinlan’s search takes him from the freewheeling capital Phnom Penh to the battle scarred western borderlands. As the political temperature soars, he is slowly drawn into a mystery that plunges him into the heart of Cambodia’s bloody past.

'Ghost Money is a crime novel, but it’s also about Cambodia in the mid-nineties, a broken country, and what happens to people who are trapped in the cracks between two periods of history, locals and foreigners, the choices they make, what they do to survive.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2010 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer As 'Cambodian Light and Darkness'.
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