John Birmingham

John Birmingham est un auteur renommé, connu pour ses travaux en science-fiction, en histoire alternative, en fiction criminelle et en non-fiction. Né en Grande-Bretagne et élevé en Australie, il a commencé sa carrière d'écrivain en contribuant à des journaux étudiants à l'Université du Queensland à Brisbane. Par la suite, il a commencé à écrire des articles pour Rolling Stone et l'édition australienne de Penthouse. Cependant, la reconnaissance la plus significative de Birmingham est venue de son mémoire, "He Died With a Felafel in His Hand", qui a ensuite été adapté en pièce de théâtre, en film et en roman graphique.

L'enfance de Birmingham à Ipswich, Queensland, et son éducation au St Edmunds Christian Brother's College et à l'Université du Queensland ont joué un rôle important dans la formation de sa carrière d'écrivain. Bien qu'il ait brièvement travaillé comme chercheur au Département de la Défense, il est rapidement retourné en Queensland pour étudier le droit, choisissant finalement de devenir écrivain à temps plein. Son seul véritable emploi à temps plein a servi d'inspiration pour son écriture, lui fournissant des expériences et des perspectives uniques qu'il a ensuite utilisées dans son travail.

Outre son écriture, Birmingham a vécu quelques expériences notables qui ont contribué à sa personnalité publique. Alors qu'il étudiait le droit, il a été l'un des derniers à être arrêté en vertu de la législation de l'État sur les manifestations de rue anti pour avoir affiché une feuille de papier avec les mots "Liberté d'expression" écrits en petits caractères. Cette expérience, ainsi que son diplôme en relations internationales, lui ont donné une perspective unique sur la politique et la société, qu'il intègre souvent dans son écriture.

Malgré son succès en tant qu'auteur, Birmingham maintient une personnalité publique modeste et autodérisoire. Il plaisante souvent sur son mode de vie, suggérant qu'il passe ses journées sur un hovercraft et finance son style de vie luxueux avec les ventes de ses livres. Cependant, son écriture parle d'elle-même, mettant en valeur son talent pour le récit et sa capacité à captiver les lecteurs avec sa voix et sa perspective uniques.
A Girl in Time Books
# Titre Année
1 A Girl in Time 2016
2 The Golden Minute 2018
Axis Of Time Books
# Titre Année
1 Weapons of Choice 2004
2 Designated Targets 2005
3 Final Impact 2006
Axis of Time: Reloaded Books
# Titre Année
1 World War 3.1 2023
Axis Of Time: Stalin's Hammer Books
# Titre Année
1 Rome 2012
2 Cairo 2016
3 Paris 2016
Dave vs. The Monsters Books
# Titre Année
1 Emergence 2014
2 Resistance 2015
3 Ascendance 2015
4 Soul Full of Guns 2016
5 A Protocol for Monsters 2016
6 The Demons of Butte Crack County 2017
Dave vs. The Monsters Series in Chronological Order
# Titre Année
1 Emergence 2014
2 A Protocol for Monsters 2016
3 Resistance 2015
4 Soul Full of Guns 2016
5 Ascendance 2015
6 The Demons of Butte Crack County 2017
End of Days Books
# Titre Année
1 Zero Day Code 2021
2 Fail State 2021
3 American Kill Switch 2022
Short Blacks Books (with David Malouf, with Helen Garner, with)
# Titre Année
1 The Brave Ones 2015
Without Warning Books
# Titre Année
1 Without Warning 2009
2 After America 2010
3 Angels Of Vengeance 2012
The Cruel Stars Books
# Titre Année
1 The Cruel Stars 2019
2 The Shattered Skies 2022
3 The Forever Dead 2024
4 The Javan War (With: Jason Lambright) 2024
Romans indépendants
# Titre Année
1 The Tasmanian Babes Fiasco 1996
2 Sleeper Agent: An Audible Original 2021
Nouvelles / Novellas
# Titre Année
1 Here Be Monsters 2008
2 A Captain of the Gate 2011
3 Fortune and Glory 2018
Livres de non-fiction
# Titre Année
1 Our Time Is Now: Notes from the High School Underground 1970
2 He Died with a Felafel in His Hand 1994
3 How to be a Man 1995
4 Leviathan: The Unauthorised Biography of Sydney 1999
5 Off One's Tits: Ill-Considered Rants And Raves from a Graceless Oaf Named John Birmingham 2002
6 Dopeland; Taking The High Road Through Australia's Marijuana Culture 2003
7 How to Be a Writer 2016
8 Stranger Thingies: From Felafel to Now 2018
9 The Seven Stages of Drinking Martinis. 2018
10 On Father 2019
Short Blacks Books (with David Malouf, with Helen Garner, with Simon Leys)
# Titre Année
1 Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice (By: Helen Garner) 2001
2 Prosper: A Voyage at Sea (By: Simon Leys) 2015
3 The One Day (By: David Malouf) 2015
4 The Brave Ones 2015
5 Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange (By: Robert Manne) 2015
Quarterly Essay Books
# Titre Année
1 Quarterly Essay 1 In Denial: The Stolen Generations and the Right (By: Robert Manne) 2001
2 Appeasing Jakarta: Australia's Complicity in the East Timor Tragedy 2001
3 Quarterly Essay 3 The Opportunist: John Howard and the Triumph of Reaction (By: Guy Rundle) 2001
4 Rabbit Syndrome: Australia and America (By: Don Watson) 2001
5 Beyond Belief: What Future for Labor? (By: John Button) 2002
6 Quarterly Essay 5 Girt By Sea: Australia, the Refugees and the Politics of Fear (By: Mungo MacCallum) 2002
7 Paradise Betrayed: West Papua's Struggle for Independence (By: John Martinkus) 2002
8 Groundswell: The Rise of the Greens (By: Amanda Lohrey) 2002
9 Beautiful Lies: Population and Environment In Australia (By: Tim Flannery) 2003
10 Bad Company: The Cult of the CEO (By: Gideon Haigh) 2003
11 Whitefella Jump Up: The Shortest Way To Nationhood (By: Germaine Greer) 2003
12 Made in England: Australia's British Inheritance (By: David Malouf) 2003
13 Sending Them Home: Refugees and the New Politics of Indifference; Quarterly Essay 13 (By: Robert Manne, David Corlett) 2004
14 Mission Impossible: The Sheikhs, the U.S. and the Future of Iraq (By: Paul McGeough) 2004
15 Quarterly Essay 16 Breach of Trust: Truth, Morality and Politics (By: Raimond Gaita) 2004
16 (By: John Hirst) 2005
17 The Worried Well: The Depression Epidemic and the Medicalisation of Our Sorrows (By: Gail Bell) 2005
18 Quarterly Essay 19 Relaxed and Comfortable: The Liberal Party's Australia (By: Judith Brett) 2005
19 Quarterly Essay 20 A Time for War 2005
20 What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy (By: Clive Hamilton) 2006
21 Quarterly Essay 22 Voting for Jesus: Christianity and Politics in Australia (By: Amanda Lohrey) 2006
22 The History Question: Who Owns the Past?; Quarterly Essay 23 (By: Inga Clendinnen) 2006
23 His Master's Voice: The Corruption of Public Debate Under Howard (By: David Marr) 2007
24 Bipolar Nation: How To Win the 2007 Election; Quarterly Essay 25 (By: Peter Hartcher) 2007
25 Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (By: Ian Lowe) 2007
26 Exit Right: The Unravelling of John Howard (By: Ian Lowe) 2007
27 Love & Money: The Family and the Free Market (By: Anne Manne) 2008
28 Quarterly Essay 30 Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention (By: Paul Toohey) 2008
29 American Revolution: The Fall of Wall Street and the Rise of Barack Obama (By: Kate Jennings) 2008
30 Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? (By: Tim Flannery) 2008
31 Quarry Vision: Coal, Climate Change and the End of the Resources Boom; Quarterly Essay 33 (By: Guy Pearse) 2009
32 Quarterly Essay 35 Radical Hope: Education and Equality for Australia (By: Noel Pearson) 2009
33 Australian Story: Kevin Rudd and the Lucky Country (By: Mungo MacCallum) 2009
34 Quarterly Essay 37 What's Right?: The Future of Conservatism in Australia (By: Waleed Aly) 2010
35 Power Trip: The Political Journey of Kevin Rudd (By: David Marr) 2010
36 Quarterly Essay 39 Power Shift: Australia's Future between Washington and Beijing (By: Hugh White) 2010
37 Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the Reform Era; Quarterly Essay 40 (By: George Megalogenis) 2010
38 Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World (By: David Malouf) 2011
39 Quarterly Essay 42 Fair Share: Country and City in Australia (By: Judith Brett) 2011
40 Bad News: Murdoch's (By: Robert Manne) 2011
41 Quarterly Essay 44 Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (By: Andrew Charlton) 2011
42 Quarterly Essay 45 Us and Them: On the Importance of Animals (By: Anna Krien) 2012
43 After The Future: Australia's New Extinction Crisis (By: Tim Flannery) 2012
44 Quarterly Essay 49 Not Dead Yet: Labor's Post-Left Future (By: Mark Latham) 2013
45 Quarterly Essay 50 Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny (By: Anna Goldsworthy) 2013
46 Quarterly Essay 46 Great Expectations: Government, Entitlement and an Angry Nation (By: Laura Tingle) 2013
47 The Prince: Faith, Abuse and George Pell (By: David Marr) 2013
48 Quarterly Essay 52 Found in Translation: In Praise of a Plural World (By: Linda Jaivin) 2013
49 Quarterly Essay 53 That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution (By: Paul Toohey) 2014
50 Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom (By: Andrew Charlton) 2014
51 Quarterly Essay 55 A Rightful Place: Race, Recognition and a More Complete Commonwealth (By: Noel Pearson) 2014
52 Clivosaurus: The Politics of Clive Palmer (By: Guy Rundle) 2014
53 Quarterly Essay 57 Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly (By: Karen Hitchcock) 2015
54 Blood Year: Terror and the Islamic State (By: David Kilcullen) 2015
55 Faction Man: Bill Shorten's Path to Power (By: David Marr) 2015
56 Political Amnesia: How We Forgot How to Govern (By: Laura Tingle) 2015
57 Balancing Act: Australia Between Recession and Renewal (By: George Megalogenis) 2016
58 Stop at Nothing: The Life and Adventures of Malcolm Turnbull (By: Annabel Crabb) 2016
59 Firing Line: Australia's Path to War (By: James Brown) 2016
60 Quarterly Essay 63 Enemy Within: American Politics in the Time of Trump (By: Don Watson) 2016
61 The Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming (By: Stan Grant) 2016
62 The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race (By: David Marr) 2017
63 The Long Goodbye: Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock (By: Anna Krien) 2017
64 Moral Panic 101: Equality, Acceptance and the Safe Schools Scandal (By: Benjamin Law) 2017
65 Without America: Australia in the New Asia (By: Hugh White) 2017
66 Moment of Truth: History and Australia's Future (By: Mark McKenna) 2018
67 Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next (By: Richard Denniss) 2018
68 Follow the Leader: Democracy and the Rise of the Strongman (By: Laura Tingle) 2018
69 Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age (By: Sebastian Smee) 2018
70 Quarterly Essay 73 Australia Fair: Listening to the Nation (By: Rebecca Huntley) 2019
71 The Prosperity Gospel: How Scott Morrison won and Bill Shorten lost (By: Erik Jensen) 2019
72 Quarterly Essay 75 Men at Work: Australia's Parenthood Trap (By: Annabel Crabb) 2019
73 Red Flag: Waking Up to China's Challenge (By: Peter Hartcher) 2019
74 Cry Me a River: The Tragedy of the Murray-Darling Basin; Quarterly Essay 77 (By: Margaret Simons) 2020
75 The Coal Curse: Resources, Climate and Australia's Future (By: Judith Brett) 2020
76 The End of Certainty: Scott Morrison and Pandemic Politics (By: Katharine Murphy) 2020
77 The High Road: What Australia can learn from New Zealand (By: Laura Tingle) 2020
78 Getting to Zero: Australia's Energy Transition (By: Colin James, Frank Bongiorno, Shireen Morris, John Quiggin, frank test, Laura Tingle, Alan Finkel, Alan Atkinson, Bain Attwood, Tim Hazledine, Miranda Johnson, Ben McKay, Hugh Riminton, Don Russell) 2021
79 Exit Strategy: Politics After the Pandemic (By: George Megalogenis) 2021
80 Top Blokes: The Larrikin Myth, Class and Power (By: Lech Blaine) 2021
81 The Reckoning: How #MeToo is Changing Australia (By: Jess Hill) 2021
82 Not Waving, Drowning: Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia (By: Sarah Krasnostein) 2022
83 Sleepwalk to War: Australia’s Unthinking Alliance with America (By: Hugh White) 2022
84 Uncivil Wars: How Contempt Is Corroding Democracy (By: Waleed Aly, Scott Stephens) 2022
85 Lone Wolf: Albanese and the New Politics (By: Katharine Murphy) 2022
86 Quarterly Essay 89 The Wires That Bind: Electrification and Community Renewal (By: Saul Griffith) 2023
87 Voice of Reason: On Recognition and Renewal (By: Megan Davis) 2023
88 Lifeboat: Disability, Humanity and the NDIS (By: Micheline Lee) 2023
89 The Great Divide: Australia's Housing Mess and How to Fix It (By: Alan Kohler) 2023
90 Bad Cop: Peter Dutton's Strongman Politics (By: Stephen Smith) 2024
91 Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future (By: Joëlle Gergis) 2024
92 High Noon: Trump, Harris and America on the Brink; Quarterly Essay 95 (By: Don Watson) 2024
93 Minority Report: The New Shape of Australian Politics (By: George Megalogenis) 2024
94 Losing It: Can we stop violence against women and children?; Quarterly Essay 97 (By: Jess Hill) 2025
John Birmingham Anthologies
# Titre Année
1 Legends of Australian Fantasy 2010
2 The Best Australian Essays: A Ten-Year Collection 2011
3 10 Short Stories You Must Read in 2011 2011
4 Defending Australia 2018