Date
31/10/2018
The competition is named in honour of prolific Australian author Alan Geoffrey Yates (aka Carter Brown). Born in England in 1923, Yates married and settled in Australia in 1948. He worked as a film technician, a salesman and in public relations for Qantas before taking up writing full-time. He wrote more than 350 novels and was a huge international success with reportedly 100 million books sold, second only to The Bible in terms of the number of languages they were translated into. There was a comic book series, the “Carter Brown Murder Mystery Hour” on radio, three French films, a Japanese TV series, and a French literary award for “The most whiskies drunk in a single novel”. He was also rumoured to be one of John F. Kennedy’s favourite authors. Yates died in 1985 in Sydney. In 1997, he was posthumously awarded a Ned Kelly, Australia’s leading literary award for crime writing, for his lifelong contribution to the art.
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