Charles Massy Charles Massy i(A4875 works by)
Born: Established: 1953 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Charles Massy has been a farmer on the Monaro in southern New South Wales. His non-fiction work Breaking the Sheep's Back : The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry (2011) was shortlisted in the 2011 Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature and for the History Award in the 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards. In 2017, he published Call of the Reed Warbler, which was longlisted for the Indie Book Awards (Nonfiction); shortlisted for the ABIA Small Publishers' Adult Book of the Year, The Nib Literary Award, the Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award, and the Adelaide Festival Non-fiction Award; and won the Tertairy and TAFe section of the Educational Publishing Awards. A revised and updated edition was released by UQP in 2020.

Massy completed a BSc (Zoology, Human Ecology) from the Australian National University (ANU) before farming for forty years: he later returned to ANU to complete a PhD in Human Ecology.

Most Referenced Works

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  •  Other works include:

    Call of the Reed Warbler (UQP 2017)

Personal Awards

2011 shortlisted Ashurst Business Literature Prize for Breaking the Sheep’s Back: The Shocking True Story of the Decline and Fall of the Australian Wool Industry
2004 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Developing Writers
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Last Dragon Canberra : National Library of Australia , 2021 23071927 2021 single work picture book children's

'Beneath the western mountains, on the open plains of the high Monaro where the skies are blue and big, there lived a little dragon lizard.

'Timpo is the smartest, best-disguised lizard in Narrawallee, the Big Grass Country. Wolfie the spider is his good friend, but there are no other dragon lizards and he is lonely for his own kind.

'Timpo and Wolfie embark on a journey to discover if Timpo is indeed the last dragon left in the valley. Through a landscape of grassland, granite boulders, shiny snow gums, and shady creeks they search, encountering new friends but also facing grave danger. Wolfie must return home with her spiderlings, but Timpo trudges on … will he ever find another dragon lizard?

'Featuring stunning artwork in ink and graphite by artist Mandy Foot, and an author’s essay on the Monaro Grassland Earless Dragon and its grassland habitat, this is a book that will have crossover appeal as a gift book for adults.'

Source : publisher's blurb
2021 winner ACT Notable Awards ACT Literary Awards — Children's — Big Press
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