Michael Pryor
Michael Pryor is an Australian writer of speculative fiction. Biography. Pryor was born in Swan Hill, Victoria and currently lives in Melbourne with his wife and two daughters. His first work to be published was the short story "Talent" in 1990, which was published in "Aurealis" No. 1. He received his first nomination for his work in 1993 when the short story "It's All in the Way You Look at It" was nominated for the Ditmar Award for best short fiction, however it lost to Greg Egan's "Closer". In 1996 Pryor released his first novel, "The  Mask of Caliban", which was a finalist for the 1997 Aurealis Award for best young-adult novel. In 2003 he started writing novels in "The Quentaris Chronicles", a shared universe with several other authors. In 2015, Pryor switched gears to writing books for children. He first published "Leo da Vinci Vs. The Ice-Cream Domination League" in 2015, then three other books for children up to the present, with "Gap Year in Ghost Town" being nominated for the Aurealis Award for best fantasy novel in 2017. Pryor has been nominated for an Aurealis Award a total of nine occasions with  the most recent being in 2018 for his short story "First Casualty". Bibliography. Novels. Doorways Trilogy The Quentaris Chronicles The Laws of Magic The Chronicles of Krangor The Extraordinaires Leo Da Vinci Ghost Town Other novels Nominations. Aurealis Awards Ditmar Awards