Dirk's Real-Life World

Place of Birth: Offenbach, Germany (near Frankfurt)
Interests: Reading, technology, movies, travelling, swimming, AFL, soccer
Dislikes: Gardening, motor sports
Favourite Colour: Blue
Favourite Book: The Scar by China Miéville
Favourite Film: Groundhog Day (Find out why)
Favourite Food: Malaysian
Favourite Song: Once Upon a Time in the West - Dire Straits
Favourite Music: Reggae
Favourite Word: susurrus (a soft murmuring or rustling sound)
Favourite Animal: Wombat

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Dirk's Bio

Dirk Strasser has won multiple Australian Publisher Association Awards and a Ditmar for Best Professional Achievement. His short stories have been translated into a number of languages, and his acclaimed fantasy trilogy, The Books of Ascension – Zenith, Equinox and Eclipse – has been published in English (Pan Macmillan / Momentum) and German (Heyne). His short story, “The Doppelgänger Effect”, appeared in the World Fantasy Award-winning anthology, Dreaming Down Under (HarperCollins), edited by Jack Dann. His articles have appeared in most of Australia’s major newspapers, he founded the Aurealis Awards and has co-edited and co-published Aurealis for over thirty years. He lives in Melbourne, Australia, with his wife, two children and fluffy white dog.  His day jobs have included a High School teacher of Mathematics and German, a college creative writing and freelance journalism teacher, a textbook author and publishing manager.