Ian Townsend

Ian’s ABC Radio National documentary Self Inflicted Sickness has been shortlisted for the Australian Government 2010 Eureka Prize for Science Journalism.

Ian’s ABC Radio National documentary on abuse Crisis for Children won the 2009 Australian Human Rights Award for radio journalism. The documentary is also a finalist in the 2009 Australian Walkley Awards for journalism.

Ian was shortlisted in the 2009 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, Science Writer category, for his ABC Radio National report on Hendra and the bats.

Ian was also shortlisted for the Literary or Media Work Advancing Public Debate – The Harry Williams Award for his ABC report on Crisis for Children.

Ian’s novel, The Devil’s Eye, has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award for 2009.

Affection longlisted for the 2007 Dublin IMPAC literary award.

Affection shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.

Affection shortlisted for The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies Colin Roderick Award for the best Australian book of 2005.

Affection shortlisted for the 2005 Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction at the Victorian Premiers Literary Awards.

Ian Townsend has been awarded the John Oxley Library Fellowship, to research his next novel, based on the 1899 Bathurst Bay cyclone.

Ian Townsend’s ABC radio documentary on male fertility won the 2005 Eureka Prize for Health and Medical Research Jounalism. This is Ian’s second Eureka prize for science writing.

The documentary was shortlisted for the 2005 Queensland Premiers Literary Award for Science Writing.