Peter Burke Peter Burke i(A775 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 East Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia, ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Born in East Fremantle, Western Australia in 1961, Peter Burke trained as a doctor and now specialises in travel medicine. During the years 1989-1996 while he worked as a general practitioner in the north-west of Australia, Burke wrote his first novel, The Drowning Dream, which was inspired by his interest with the people of that region. An earlier draft of the novel was shortlisted for the Vogel Literary Award in 1996.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 runner up Tom Collins Poetry Prize for 'Barney Embraces Technology'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Drowning Dream South Fremantle : Fremantle Press , 1998 Z373233 1998 single work novel historical fiction 'William Webber simply wants to set the record straight. At ninety-six he has a rare medical ailment, suffers a recurring watery nightmare, and knows a thing or two about history. After all, he was there for a bit of it himself. Back in 1920, the young Webber finds himself in a boys' own adventure story, far from home, on the trail of mystery and romance. The dangerous cut-throat world of pearling, a mad hermit in the mangroves, a voyage on a death boat - the stuff of a young man's dreams. But nothing is as it seems, and in the real world there are no simple answers, no untarnished heroes, and no neat endings.' Source: book jacket.
1996 shortlisted The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript)
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