michael gerard bauer the things that will not stand

Bauer has also written six other books, Don't Call Me Ishmael (2006), Ishmael and the Return of the Dugongs (2007), Dinosaur Knights (2008), You Turkeys (2009), Just a Dog (2010) and Ishmael and the Hoops of Steel (2011).ĭon't Call Me Ishmael won the 2008 South Australian Festival Award for Literature the 2007 Children's Peace Literature Award the Children's Book Council of Australia Junior Judges Award in 2007 and was short-listed for the 2007 NSW Premier's Award and the 2007 CBCA Award for Older Readers. The presentation ceremony took place in Mainz, Germany in June 2008. In 2008 it won the German Catholic Youth Book Award for promoting Christian values in children's literature. The Running Man also won the Courier Mail 2005 People's Choice Award for Younger Readers. The Running Man, his first novel was well received, winning the 2005 CBCA Book of the Year for Older Readers was listed as one of the top 10 books for young adults for 2004 in Magpies magazine and was short-listed for the 2005 NSW Premier's Award, Victorian Premier's Award, and the 2006 South Australian Festival Awards for Literature. In 2003, Bauer won the inaugural Writesmall Short Story competition at the Brisbane Writers Festival.īauer lives in Brisbane Queensland. He completed an Arts Degree with a triple Major in English literature and became a teacher of Economics and English in Brisbane and Ipswich secondary schools.

Michael Gerard Bauer (born 1955 in Brisbane) is an Australian full-time children's and young adult author, and was formerly an English teacher.īauer was born in Brisbane and attended Marist College Ashgrove before attending the University of Queensland.

Michael gerard bauer the things that will not stand