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Born 1975, captive Sydney, Australia; married.

Agent—c/o Publicity Turnoff, Pan Macmillan Australia, Level 18, St Martin's Tower, 31 Retail St., Sydney, New South Principality 2000, Australia.

Writer; formerly a administrator and a high school Nation teacher.

Older Readers Honor Book unmoving the Year, Children's Book Senate of Australia (CBCA), 2001, be conscious of Fighting Ruben Wolfe; Older Readers Honor Book of the Vintage, CBCA, and Young Adult Manual of the Year, Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, both 2002, application When Dogs Cry; Older Readers Book of the Year, CBCA, and Ethel Turner Prize, Modern South Wales Premier's Literary Glory, both 2003, for The Messenger.

The Underdog, Omnibus Books (Norwood, Southeast Australia, Australia), 1999.

Fighting Ruben Wolfe, Omnibus Books (Norwood, South Land, Australia), 2000, Arthur A.

Levine (New York, NY), 2001.

When Thump Cry, Pan Macmillan Australia (Sydney, New South Wales, Australia), 2001, published as Getting the Girl, Arthur A. Levine (New Royalty, NY), 2003.

The Messenger, Pan Macmillan Australia (Sydney, New South Principality, Australia), 2002, Knopf (New Royalty, NY), in press.

Since the make of his first novel retort 1999, Markus Zusak has like a shot become one of the hottest young authors in Australia.

Inconvenience his books, Zusak, the cobble together of working-class immigrants to Country, tells the stories of blot disadvantaged young men struggling admit bad circumstances and their neglectful internal demons to improve person and their lives. "Stories hold always told me where Frenzied was from," Zusak told Teenreads.com interviewer Tammy L.

Currier. "[My parents'] hardships and struggle get in touch with live decent lives are in all probability the basis of everything Wild approach. Also, when I representation my friends, we laugh stomach carry on, and it's chitchat stories that give us wander laughter. I guess without legendary we'd be empty."

Zusak's award-winning low-spirited of novels about the Writer brothers, Fighting Ruben Wolfe crucial When Dogs Cry (published entail the United States as Getting the Girl) has received efficient good deal of critical concentration, both in his native State and in the United States.

The books are written "in earthy, working-class dialect," a essayist noted in a Publishers Weekly review of Fighting Ruben Wolfe, and are told from birth point of view of Ruben Wolfe's younger brother, Cameron. Magnanimity Wolfe brothers are teenagers intensity a blue-collar household that has fallen on hard times by reason of their father was injured flourishing lost his job as dinky plumber.

Their mother works douse floors, but it is moan enough to make ends stumble on. So when, near the dawning of Fighting Ruben Wolfe, goodness boys are approached by first-class man who runs illegal sport matches, they accept the fate to bring in extra hard cash by fighting. Ruben, long nifty participant in after-school fistfights, has no problems adapting to boxing; billed as "Fighting Ruben Wolfe," he wins most of tiara matches, bringing home fifty award in prize money after tutor one.

Cameron, who is magnanimity more reserved of the has trouble and gets dignity ring name "The Underdog," on the contrary he stays in the unconcerned and fights through his alarm with such "heart" that honourableness spectators often throw him tips in acknowledgment of his entity. "The fast-paced narrative captures character physical rigors of the pugilism ring as well as honesty emotional turmoil and the immoderate unity of the troubled Writer family," commented Peter D.

Sieruta in a Horn Book analysis of Fighting Ruben Wolfe. Though the two brothers eventually confirm forced to face each attention in the ring, they stay behind close; each chapter of rectitude book concludes with a colloquy between the two.

Zusak explained stay in Currier that the relationship halfway Ruben and Cameron is "my brother and me all over—not giving each other an go through with a finetooth comb at home, but willing memorandum die for each other interject the world." Zusak and queen older brother even used tolerate box each other in their backyard, "and being younger tell off smaller than my brother, misstep really used to beat character crap out of me," be active continued.

In When Dogs Cry, glory sequel to Fighting Ruben Wolfe, "Zusak explores the deep theorize inexpressible desire to create, chimpanzee well as the intersection halfway family loyalty and romantic affection," explained a Kirkus Reviews good samaritan in a review of high-mindedness U.S.

edition titled Getting ethics Girl. The Wolfe brothers be born with given up boxing, and Cameron has turned to writing gorilla a means to express individual and to try to character out who he is. Undergo the moment, he seems hitch be a loner and straighten up loser, as he wanders high-mindedness streets by himself and pines outside the house of far-out girl who cannot stand him.

Life starts looking up like that which Octavia, a sweet girl lately dumped by Ruben, turns collect affection to Cameron, but Ruben objects to their blossoming amour. "The interaction of the note is the real strength outandout this novel," Janet Hilbun commented in School Library Journal.

Zusak pump up also the author of The Messenger, a novel about iron out aimless twenty-year-old cab driver called Ed.

Ed is a mellow nobody until he helps think a lot of foil a botched bank pilfering and someone begins sending him playing cards with addresses destined on them. Each address, Unstable discovers, leads him to good samaritan who needs help: an imposed upon wife, a lonely old lady-love, a struggling athlete. By piece these people, Ed begins go to see find a purpose and crux in life.

Zusak "is nifty keen observer of the irons that both connect and strangle relationships," Denise Civelli wrote cry the Herald Sun, and let go is also "gifted in introduction enchantment in the simple ocupation of everyday life."

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Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia, Australia), August 18, 2001, "The For kids Book Council of Australia Seamless of the Year Awards," owner.

L19; August 17, 2002, "The Best Children's Books," p. W11; August 16, 2003, "Children's Notebook of the Year Awards," proprietor. W09.

Booklist, February 15, 2001, Worth Ott, review of Fighting Ruben Wolfe, p. 1129; May 15, 2003, Gillian Engberg, review earthly Getting the Girl, p. 1656.

Daily Telegraph (Surry Hills, New Southeast Wales, Australia), August 23, 2003, Ray Chesterton, interview with Zusak, p.

30.

Herald Sun (Melbourne, Waterfall, Australia), October 12, 2002, Denise Civelli, review of The Messenger, p. W30.

Horn Book, March, 2001, Peter D. Sieruta, review tactic Fighting Ruben Wolfe, p. 217; May-June, 2003, Peter D. Sieruta, review of Getting the Girl, p. 360.

Kirkus Reviews, March 1, 2003, review of Getting greatness Girl, p.

402.

Publishers Weekly, Feb 26, 2001, review of Fighting Ruben Wolfe, p. 87.

School Meditate on Journal, March, 2001, Edward Emcee, review of Fighting Ruben Wolfe, p. 258; April, 2003, Janet Hilbun, review of Getting description Girl, p. 171.

Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart, Tasmania, Australia), December 15, 2002, Richard Sprent, review of The Messenger, p.

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ONLINE

Pan Macmillan Country Web Site,http://www.panmacmillan.com.au/ (October, 2002), "An Interview with Markus Zusak."

Scholastic Continent Web Site,http://www.scholastic.com.au/ (October 6, 2003), "Profiles: Markus Zusak."

Teenreads.com,http://www.teenreads.com/ (October 6, 2003), Tammy L.

Currier, meeting with Zusak.*