Barry Levy

Barry Levy is a prize-winning Australian journalist and has published four fiction books and one non-fiction book in the past nine years - all of them with a cutting social edge.

His fiction titles are:

The Terrorist (Interactive Press, 2012);

Shades of Exodus (Interactive Press, 2011);

As If! (Interactive Press, 2008); and

Burning Bright (Kwela Books, 2004).

Non-fiction:

Levy's latest book, co-authored with Deborah Kay, is a highly emotive, provocative but ultimately inspiring story of sexual abuse:

Sawdust (Interactive Publications, 2013)

Brought up in Johannesburg, South Africa, Levy moved to Australia in 1984 because of his abhorrence of apartheid. He is a winner of the Australian Human Rights Award for Journalism for a multiple series of stories on child sex abuse, domestic violence and homelessness; winner of the Anning Barton Memorial Award for Outstanding Journalism (Central Queensland) for a series of stories on child sex abuse (incest-rape), and a Walkley Awards Queensland State finalist - for a series on homelessness.