David Owen
TAF2019 is proud to announce our Murder(sHe) Wrote line-up will feature the author of Tasmania’s much loved long-running Pufferfish series, DAVID OWEN.
A prolific author, David’s most recent crime fiction works include Pufferfish 9, Big Red Rock, and the standalone crime fiction/teaching novella, Why Neville Shot Gus.
David Owen was born in Zimbabwe in 1956. He lived in Malawi, Swaziland and South Africa before migrating to London, and then to Australia in 1986 where he worked at CSIRO in Melbourne before moving to Tasmania. He edited Tasmania’s Island magazine for five years. He also worked for Arts Tasmania curating literary festivals and the Tasmania Book Prizes. He is author of 18 fiction and nonfiction titles, the nonfiction books being a natural history series – Thylacine; Tasmanian Devil; Shark. He is married to Leisha Owen. They have two adult sons, Hilton, an artist, and Larry, a doctor. He is the Official Secretary to the Governor of Tasmania.
DAVID’S EVENTS
David will attend NOIR AT THE BAR and Curse of the Sphinx MURDER MYSTERY PARTY.
DAVID’S PANEL SESSIONS
8.45 am, Sat 2 Nov, MOTIVE
4 pm, Sat 2 Nov, CSI: TASMANIA
1.45 pm, Sun 3 Nov, AND THEN THERE WERE NONE
