Brandon Roberts

Brandon Roberts was born in Adelaide, Australia, on September 17, 1966. He is a writer based in Adelaide, South Australia. He writes predominantly humorous far-fetched fiction in the tradition of Douglas Adams, Robert Rankin and Christopher Moore.

Childhood and early adult life

Most of his childhood was spent in the South East region of South Australia, before moving to Bunbury Western Australia in the late seventies. Returning to Adelaide South Australia in 1980 and completing his education in 1983, he spent several years as a labourer and machine operator in the local print packaging industry where he became involved with the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union as a site delegate, then Father of the Chapel and later served a term as employee representative member of The South Australian Industrial Commission’s Board’s of Reference. He currently resides in Elizabeth South Australia with his wife and three sons.

Writing career

Brandon’s first book, Three Agendas and One Slim Hope, the first in his Agenda series, was published by Zeus Publications in March 2007. He is looking to publish his second book, Elmer’s Agenda, in 2008 and he is currently working at the third in the series, The Newstar Agenda. A member of the South Australian Writer’s Centre and the Ad-Astra speculative fiction writers group, recurring themes in Brandon’s work include social satire, post modernism, surrealism and the moral accountability of those in authority.

External references

* Zeus publications - potted biography of Brandon Roberts:
* National Library of Australia: [http://search.nla.gov.au/sitesearch/query.html?colnlaweb&rq1&qm1&op0&tx0roberts&fl0&ty0w&rf0&lk=1]
* Another National Library of Australia reference:

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