Trent Dalton
Trent Dalton is an Australian journalist and literary fiction author.Career
Dalton works as a staff writer for The Weekend Australian and previously worked for The Courier-Mail. In 2018 he published Boy Swallows Universe through 4th Estate, which was longlisted for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award.
In May 2019 the adaptation rights for Boy Swallows Universe were won by Anonymous Content, Chapter One and Hopscotch Features, to be directed by Australian actor and director Joel Edgerton.Novels
- Boy Swallows Universe, 4th Estate
- All Our Shimmering Skies
Nonfiction
- By Sea & Stars: The Story of the First Fleet, 4th Estate
Awards
- Australian Book Industry Awards
- *2019: Winner: ABIA Book of the Year Boy Swallows Universe
- *2019: Winner: Literary Fiction Book of the Year Boy Swallows Universe
- *2019: Winner: The Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year Boy Swallows Universe
- *2019: Winner: Audio Book of the Year Boy Swallows Universe
- Indie Book Awards
- *2019: Winner: Debut fiction Boy Swallows Universe
- International Dublin Literary Award
- * 2020: Longlisted: Boy Swallows Universe
- New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- * 2019: Shortlisted: Christine Stead Prize for Fiction
- * 2019: Winner: UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- Queensland Literary Awards
- * 2019: Shortlisted: Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance
- * 2019: Shortlisted: The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award
- Voss Literary Prize
- * 2019: Shortlisted
