Graeme Simsion Graeme Simsion i(A133056 works by) (a.k.a. Graeme Charles Simsion)
Born: Established: ca. 1956
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Male
Arrived in Australia: ca. 1968
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Formerly an IT specialist (with a PhD in data modelling), Graeme Simsion made his publishing debut with the wildly successful The Rosie Project, based on his own script for a short film of the same title. He has subsequently published two sequels, the standalone novel The Best of Adam Sharp, and a novel co-written with his wife, Anne Buist, Two Steps Forward.

In 2019, he released Don Tillman's Standardised Meal System, a book of recipes and tips in the voice of the protagonist of the Rosie series.

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y separately published work icon The Rosie Effect Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014 7449161 2014 single work novel romance

'‘We’ve got something to celebrate,’ Rosie said.

I am not fond of surprises, especially if they disrupt plans already in place. I assumed that she had achieved some important milestone with her thesis. Or perhaps she had been offered a place in the psychiatry-training programme. This would be extremely good news, and I estimated the probability of sex at greater than 80%.

‘We’re pregnant,’ she said.

'The Rosie Project was an international publishing phenomenon, with more than a million copies sold in over forty countries around the world. Now Graeme Simsion returns with the highly anticipated sequel, The Rosie Effect.

'Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are now married and living in New York. Don has been teaching at Columbia while Rosie completes her first year of a psychology degree. Just as Don is about to announce that Gene, his philandering best friend from Australia, is coming to stay, Rosie drops a bombshell: she’s pregnant.

'In true Tillman style, Don instantly becomes an expert on all things obstetric. But in between immersing himself in a new research study on parenting and implementing the Standardised Meal System (pregnancy version), Don’s old weaknesses resurface. And while he strives to get the technicalities right, he gets the emotions all wrong, and risks losing Rosie when she needs him most.

'The Rosie Effect is the charming and hilarious romantic comedy of the year.'

2015 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2015 shortlisted Indie Awards Fiction
2015 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards BookPeople Book of the Year
Three Encounters with the Physical 2013 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Hermano Cerdo 2006-;

— Appears in: The Age , 12 January 2013;
2013 second The Age Short Story Competition
y separately published work icon The Rosie Project Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2013 Z1863383 2013 single work novel humour

'Don Tillman is a forty-year-old geneticist with undiagnosed Aspergers. When he wants to find a partner, he approaches the project the only way he knows - systematically. He creates a questionnaire designed to find the perfect woman - a punctual, non-drinking, non-smoking female who will fit in with his regimented lifestyle. When Rosie appears on the scene, she fits none of Don's criteria - but she does turn his life upside down.'

Source: Wheeler Centre website,
Sighted: 28/05/2012

2014 winner APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover
2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year
2014 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2014 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2013 finalist Australian Romance Readers Awards Favourite Contemporary Romance
2012 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
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