Kerry Isabelle GreenwoodOAM (born 1954[1]) is an Australian author and lawyer. She has written many plays and books, most notably a string of historical detective novels centred on the character of Phryne Fisher, which was adapted as the popular television series Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She writes mysteries, science-fiction, historical fiction, children's stories, and plays. Greenwood earned the Australian women's crime fiction Davitt Award in 2002 for her young adult novel The Three-Pronged Dagger.
She began writing books at sixteen, but remained unpublished. In 1988 she entered one of her eight novels for the Vogel prize; although not successful, one of the judges offered her a contract for two detective novels.[2]
Spinouts (with Michael Pryor and Catherine Randle)edit
The Bold and The Brave (2000)
Stormbringeredit
The Broken Wheel,Whaleroad,Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer refer to events in those books, but are otherwise independent.
Whaleroad,Cave Rats and Feral published in one volume in 2002
Alien Invasions (2000) (with Shannah Jay and Lucy Sussex, edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain)
A Different Sort of Real: The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 (2001), also titled The Deadly Flu as printed in 2012, and Contagion: My Australian Story, Scholastic Australia, 2020.[20]
The Three-Pronged Dagger (2002)
Danger Do Not Enter (2003)
The Long Walk (2004)
Journey to Eureka (2005)
Out of the Black Land (2010)
Collectionsedit
Recipes for Crime (1995) (with Jenny Pausacker)[21]
On Murder 2: True Crime Writing in Australia (2002)
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery (2012)
TV and filmedit
The Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries television series was filmed in and around Melbourne in 2011 and premiered on ABC1 on 24 February 2012. A second series was commissioned in August 2012 and filming began in February 2013 and aired starting 6 September 2013.[22] A third series was commissioned in June 2014 and began airing on 8 May 2015.
The TV series was redone by HBO Asia in 2020 as Miss S, set in Shanghai in the 1930s instead of Melbourne in the 1920s.[23] The show was filmed in Mandarin, Miss Phryne Fisher was renamed as Su Wenli, Inspector Robinson was renamed as Luo Qiuheng, and Dorothy 'Dot' Williams was renamed as Xiao Tao Zi.[24]
Awards and nominationsedit
Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel, 1996: joint winner for The Broken Wheel
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: honour book for A Different Sort of Real : The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918–1919
Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: winner for The Three-Pronged Dagger
Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: nominated for The Wandering Icon
Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: nominated for Murder in Montparnasse : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Contribution, 2003
Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Heavenly Pleasures : A Corinna Chapman Novel
Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: shortlisted for Queen of the Flowers : A Phryne Fisher Mystery
^Popple, Jeff (19 January 1992). "Unabated flood of serial killers". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Barney, Stan (24 May 1992). "Compulsive reading in an outback adventure". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Popple, Jeff (14 January 1995). "A mixed bag of crime an espionage thrillers". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Price, Jenna (10 December 1995). "The Body in the Stocking". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^"Death by Water". The Age. 26 June 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Turnbull, Sue (9 November 2013). "Literary Miss Fisher always gets her man". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^"Death in Daylesford - Kerry Greenwood". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 29 August 2020.
^"The Lady with the Gun Asks the Questions - Kerry Greenwood". Allen & Unwin. Retrieved 12 December 2020.
^Goldsworthy, Kerryn (15 November 2018). "The Spotted Dog review: Kerry Greenwood bakes a serving of criminal delights". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Matthews, Stephen (23 July 1995). "Browsing a Book fair". The Canberra Times. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^"Prose does no Justice to subjects sensuality". The Canberra Times. 14 January 1995. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Salins, Christine (6 September 1995). "Provence from Melbourne's French Kitchen". Canberra Times. p. 30. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
^Every Cloud website Archived 15 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
^Catalano, Madeline (15 August 2022). "Miss S: How the HBO Max Show Puts a Chinese Spin on Murder Mysteries". MovieWeb. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
^"Miss S (TV Series 2000– )". IMDb. Retrieved 14 March 2023.
^Phryne Fisher website and publisher Allen and Unwin website https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/books/fiction/crime-mystery/Cocaine-Blues-Kerry-Greenwood-9781741145663
External linksedit
Phryne Fisher's website
Corinna Chapman's website
Interview with Kerry Greenwood at Allen & Unwin
Sue Ryan-Fazilleau, "Kerry Greenwood's 'Rewriting' of Agatha Christie", JASAL 7 (2007)
"On the couch with Kerry Greenwood". The Age. 14 August 2003. Retrieved 15 June 2008.
"Getting Feral With Kerry". Diverse Universe. September 2003. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
"George Negus Tonight with Kerry Greenwood". ABC. 23 February 2004. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
"Crime According to Kerry Greenwood". Kathleen Fisher's Tiny Purple Fish blog. September 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
"Author Interview: Kerry Greenwood". Sydney Writers' Centre blog. 19 October 2007. Retrieved 30 November 2009.
"Author Interview: Kerry Greenwood". Festival Online Magazine'. December 2013. Retrieved 21 May 2014.