Derwent Valley
Writers’ Festival

May 27—29 2022
The Barracks, New Norfolk

Alan Carter

Alan Carter was born in Sunderland, United Kingdom. He immigrated to Australia in 1991 and now lives just south of Hobart. He sometimes works as a television documentary director. In his spare time, he plunges into the icy Tasmanian waters for fun. He is the author of five Cato Kwong novels – Prime Cut (Winner of Ned Kelly Award, Best First Fiction), Getting Warmer, Bad Seed, Heaven Sent and Crocodile Tears – and the Nick Chester novels Marlborough Man (Winner of Ngaio Marsh Award, Best Crime Fiction) and Doom Creek, set in New Zealand.