Graeme Simsion

Graeme C. Simsion
Born	Auckland, New Zealand
Occupation	Author, consultancy manager, data modeller
Nationality	Australian, NZ, UK
Education	2014 Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing, RMIT 2013 Advanced Diploma of Screenwriting, RMIT 2006 PhD, University of Melbourne 1986 MBA, Deakin University 1984 GDipC&IS, Monash University 1976 BSc, Monash University
Notable awards	2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award 2014 Australian Book Industry's Book of the Year
Spouse	Professor Anne Buist
Children	2
Website
graemesimsion.com

2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award

Graeme C. Simsion FACS is an Australian author, screenwriter, playwright and data modeller.

Simsion won the 2012 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award for his book, The Rosie Project. Text Publishing has sold the rights to the book internationally for over $1.8m.The Rosie Project was published in Australia in January 2014, and has since sold more than a million copies in over forty countries around the world. Simsion initially wrote The Rosie Project as a screenplay, which has since been optioned to Sony Pictures Entertainment. A sequel to The Rosie Project, titled The Rosie Effect, was published on 24 September 2014 by Text Publishing. Simsion has announced that his third novel will be about a relationship rekindled and titled The Best of Adam Sharp. He and his wife Anne Buist are also collaborating on a novel set on the Camino de Santiago.

Prior to writing fiction he was an information systems consultant and wrote two books and several papers about data-modelling. He established a consulting business in 1982 and sold it in 1999. At that time Simsion Bowles and Associates had over seventy staff. He co-founded a wine distribution business, Pinot Now with Steven Naughton. In 2006 he obtained a PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in the area of data modeling.

He is married to Professor Anne Buist and has two children.

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