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Author Bio
Birth—ca. 1978-79
Raised—outside Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Education—N/A
Awards—(see below)
Currently—lives in Brisbane


Trent Dalton is an award-winning journalist at The Weekend Australian Magazine. His writing includes several short and feature-length film screenplays. In 2019 he published, Boy Swallows Universe, his debut novel, closely based on his own childhood.

He was nominated for a 2010 AFI Best Short Fiction screenplay award for his latest film, Glenn Owen Dodds, which also won the prestigious International Prix Canal award at the world's largest short film festival, the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival.

Dalton's debut feature film screenplay, In the Silence, is currently in production. (From the publisher.)