Question: What was the nationality of the author, on whose novels,  the River Kings mini series was based ?

Context articles: Max Fatchen
AACTA Award for Best Direction in Television
The River Kings
The Mystic Warrior
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars
Frank E. Peretti
List of Classic NES Series games
Christopher Stasheff
Shadowland (comics)
Jack McDevitt

Maxwell Edgar "Max" Fatchen, AM (3 August 192014 October 2012) was an Australian journalist and children's writer.
The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Direction in Television is awarded annually by the Australian Film Institute as part of the awards in television for excellence in direction.
 Prior to 1990, two awards existed and were called "Best Direction in a Mini Series" and "Best Direction in a Telefeature".
 The awards were merged in 1990 to become "Best Direction in a Telefeature or Mini Series" which in 1991 was renamed "Best Achievement in Direction in a Television Drama".
 In 2004, this award became "Best Direction in Television".
The River Kings is a 1991 Australian mini series based on the novels The River Kings and Conquest of the River by Max Fatchen.
 It had a budget of $3.5 million.
The Mystic Warrior is a 1984 American TV movie about a band of Sioux and the efforts of one man to save his people from destruction through the use of mysterious powers handed down by ancestors.
 The movie was originally a nine-hour mini-series entitled "Hanta Yo" to be aired in 1980, instead aired in 1984 as a five-hour mini series with the new name.
 The mini series has been released on DVD in Germany, but no international release as yet.
Paper Giants: Magazine Wars is a 2013 Australian two-part television miniseries about 'golden years' of the glossy women's magazines and the battle to have the number one selling publication in Australia.
 The mini series is a sequel to the 2011 mini series .
Frank Edward Peretti (born January 13, 1951) is a "New York Times" best-selling author of Christian fiction, whose novels primarily focus on the supernatural.
 To date, his works have sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
 Peretti is best known for his novels "This Present Darkness" (1986) and "Piercing the Darkness" (1989).
 Peretti has held ministry credentials with the Assemblies of God, and formerly played the banjo in a bluegrass band called Northern Cross.
 He now lives in Coeur d'Alene Idaho with his wife, Barbara.
The Classic NES Series, known in Japan as Famicom Mini Series (ファミコンミニ , Famikon Mini ) and in Australia and Europe as NES Classics, are a series of Game Boy Advance games that were originally released on the Nintendo Entertainment System (the Family Computer and the Disk System in Japan) emulated on the Game Boy Advance.
Christopher Stasheff (born 1944) is an American science fiction author and fantasy author whose novels include "The Warlock in Spite of Himself" (1969) and "Her Majesty's Wizard" (1986).
 He has a PhD.
 in Theatre and taught radio and television at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, New Mexico; he is now retired and living in Champaign, Illinois.
 Stasheff has been noted for his blending of science fiction and fantasy, as seen in his "Warlock" series, which placed an "'epic fantasy' in a science fictional frame".
 Stasheff's writing is often seen in the moral and ethical mentor style similar to Terry Goodkind, Terry Brooks or J.R.R. Tolkien.
"Shadowland" is a 2010 Marvel Comics storyline centering on Daredevil and other "street-level" superheroes in the Marvel Universe.
 The storyline started in the Daredevil comic and was expanded upon in the "Shadowland" five-issue mini series as well as four tie-in mini series, four one-shots, and two issues of "Thunderbolts".
 The storyline was collected into seven individual hard cover and soft cover Trade paperbacks in 2011.
Jack McDevitt (born April 14, 1935) is an American science fiction author whose novels frequently deal with attempts to make contact with alien races, and with archaeology or xenoarchaeology.
 His two main series are the Alex Benedict series and the Priscilla Hutchins series.