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Andrew Lindsay was a cadet reporter for the National Times before leaving journalism for acting and street theatre. In the late 1970s he studied at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris. Lindsay returned to Sydney and in 1982 formed, with Nicoletta Boris, the theatre company Red Weather for which he also wrote and acted. In 1990 Lindsay was a freelance actor in Canberra before moving to Melbourne where he worked on four oral histories of Collingwood and succeeded with his fiction writing.

Lindsay was a recipient of Literature Board Writer's Project Grants in 1993 and 1994. He has been an Artist in Residence several times, at various universities and schools. In 1995 he won the Radio National Books and Short Story Competition and in 1996 he was a joint winner at the 1996 Jim Hamilton Award. He was living in Sydney in 2003.