Barry Divola Barry Divola i(A86264 works by)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Barry Divola is a regular contributor of magazines and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, the (sydney) magazine, Who Weekly and the Sydney Morning Herald. He is the author of three non-fiction books, and co-author of three children's book. He lives in Sydney.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2022 winner Love to Read Local Flash Fiction for Forget Inc.
2015 shortlisted Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for the development of ‘Happy Man’, the true story of Australian band The Sunnyboys and singer-songwriter Jeremy Oxley
2006 winner Banjo Paterson Writing Awards for 'Nixon'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Driving Stevie Fracasso Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2021 20764296 2021 single work novel

'Two estranged brothers, one stolen car and a road trip from Texas to New York. What could possibly go wrong? For fans of Nick Hornby, David Nicholls and Jonathan Tropper.

'Jaded music journo Rick McLennan knows his life is going south when he loses his job, his apartment and his long-term girlfriend all on the same day. But then he is thrown a lifeline: a paying gig to drive his ex-rock star brother, Stevie, from Austin, Texas, to New York to get his story and play one final gig. One small problem: the brothers have history; they haven't spoken in thirty years.

'Rick knows it's a bad idea. But he's out of choices. So he gets behind the wheel of a beaten-up Datsun 180B and drives towards his destiny. He's about to find everything he didn't know he was missing. It's September 2001.

'From high-profile, award-winning journalist and author Barry Divola comes a glorious, music-infused, rollicking road-trip novel - think High Fidelity meets The Big Lebowski meets The Darjeeling Limited. A smart, funny and wholly endearing story about how, though we may at times lose ourselves along the way, the road always leads back to family and the things that bring us joy.'

Source : publisher's blurb

2022 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Darren Holt.
Knitting 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Award Winning Australian Writing 2013 2013; (p. 165-171)
2013 winner Margaret River Short Story Writing Competition
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