David Hunt David Hunt i(8953144 works by)
Gender: Male
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Historian and satirist.

David Hunt is best known for his satirical histories of Australia: Girt and True Girt. In 2016, he published his first children's book.

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y separately published work icon The Nose Pixies : A Cautionary Tale Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2016 9213820 2016 single work picture book children's

'The hilarious debut picture book from the award-winning and bestselling author of GIRT. This is a book with a grossness that kids will love, and with a message that parents will adore.Oliver has a bad habit. A very bad habit. He just can't keep his fingers out of his nose, which is a big problem for the tiny pixies who mine his 'nose gold' to keep their cities running.The Nose Pixies return to their kingdom with empty handkerchiefs night after night. And unless their luck changes, they'll be out of a job ... or worse! A wickedly funny, deliciously clever cautionary tale from award‐winning creators David Hunt and Lucia Masciullo. Ages 4-8 yrs.' (Publication summary)

2017 shortlisted Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards Three to 5 Years
y separately published work icon True Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia Vol. 2 Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2016 10491137 2016 single work non-fiction

'First there was Girt. Now comes . . . True Girt

'In this side-splitting sequel to his best-selling history, David Hunt takes us to the Australian frontier. This was the Wild South, home to hardy pioneers, gun-slinging bushrangers, directionally challenged explorers, nervous indigenous people, Caroline Chisholm and sheep. Lots of sheep.

'True Girt introduces Thomas Davey, the hard-drinking Tasmanian governor who invented the Blow My Skull cocktail, and Captain Moonlite, Australia's most famous LGBTI bushranger. Meet William Nicholson, the Melbourne hipster who gave Australia the steam-powered coffee roaster and the world the secret ballot. And say hello to Harry, the first camel used in Australian exploration, who shot dead his owner, the explorer John Horrocks.

'Learn how Truganini's death inspired the Martian invasion of Earth. Discover the role of Hall and Oates in the Myall Creek Massacre. And be reminded why you should never ever smoke with the Wild Colonial Boy and Mad Dan Morgan.

'If Manning Clark and Bill Bryson were left on a desert island with only one pen, they would write True Girt.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2017 shortlisted Russell Prize for Humour Writing
2017 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Non-Fiction Book of the Year
2017 longlisted Indie Awards Nonfiction
y separately published work icon Girt : The Unauthorised History of Australia Melbourne : Black Inc. , 2013 9051576 2013 single work non-fiction

'Girt. No word could better capture the essence of Australia...

'In this hilarious history, David Hunt tells the real story of Australia's past from megafauna to Macquarie ... the cock-ups and curiosities, the forgotten eccentrics and Eureka moments that have made us who we are.

'Mark Twain wrote of Australian history: 'It does not read like history, but like the most beautiful lies ... but they are all true, they all happened.' In Girt, Hunt uncovers these beautiful lies, recounting the strange and ridiculous episodes that conventional histories ignore. The result is surprising, enlightening – and side-splittingly funny.

'Girt explains the role of the coconut in Australia's only military coup, the Dutch obsession with nailing perfectly good kitchenware to posts, and the settlers' fear of Pemulwuy and his Amazing Technicolor Dreamingcoat.

'It introduces us to forgotten heroes like Mary McLoghlin, transported for the typically Irish crime of 'felony of sock'; Patyegarang, the young Eora girl who co-authored the world's most surprising dictionary; and Trim the cat, who beat a French monkey to become the first animal to circumnavigate Australia.

'Our nation's beginnings were steeped in the unlikely, the incongruous and the frankly bizarre. Girt restores these stories to their rightful place. Not to read it would be un-Australian.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2014 winner Indie Awards Nonfiction
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