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Steve Bisley Steve Bisley i(A61982 works by)
Born: Established: 1951 Lake Munmorah, Budgewoi Lake - Lake Munmorah area, Central Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Male
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Born at Lake Munmorah, New South Wales, Steve Bisley graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) with a degree in Acting in 1977. After early roles in Summer City, Newsfront, and Mad Max, he became one of Australia's most recognisable television and stage actors, with continuing film roles, including cult classic The Big Steal.

In 2013, Bisley released his autobiography, Stillways: A Memoir; it was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Queensland Literary Awards, and the National Biography Awards. A follow-up memoir was released in 2017, and his first novel is announced for 2019.

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y separately published work icon Stillways : A Memoir Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2013 6135229 2013 single work autobiography

'From one of Australia’s favourite actors comes a classic memoir of an Australian childhood in the sixties. Young Steve was a larrikin, happy-go-lucky, resilient kid, coming of age in a simpler time. Growing up on a farm cut from virgin scrub at the end of a lake, a farm called Stillways, Steve daydreamed about cars and escape. His story is about him hero-worshipping his older brother with Brylcreem in his hair; going to school as a young kid with bus money knotted into a hanky and clutching his Globite schoolcase; fighting bullies at school and dreaming about girls; being amazed at the first television in town; remembering where he was when Marilyn Monroe died... But there’s a darker thread running through the story: the father who’d take out his frustrations by savagely belting his young children; a struggling mother who’d do anything to protect her kids; a young boy irrevocably marked by his father’s anger.

'Endearing, funny, honest and unflinching–this memoir will become an Australian classic. ' (Publisher's blurb)

2014 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Non-Fiction Book Award
2014 shortlisted National Biography Award
2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
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