Ian Townsend

Ian Townsend is a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. His first novel, Affection, was shortlisted for the 2005 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for a first novel, and the 2006 Colin Roderick Award. He’s also the winner of two Australian Eureka Prizes for science and medical research journalism, and is the 2006 John Oxley Library research fellow. In 2006, he was long-listed for the Dublin IMPAC literary award.