Brendan Shanahan (author)
- Brendan Shanahan (author)
Brendan Shanahan (born 1976) is an Australian journalist and author. Shanahan was born in Sydney, but grew up in Canberra, the Australian Capital. He has an honours degree in Art History and Curatorship from the Australian National University in Canberra. While at university, Shanahan was the editor of the ANU Student Newspaper, Woroni, where he gained notoriety among the University's political groups (and debating society) for his strongly satirical writing style. He is the author of 2008's [http://www.inturkeyiambeautiful.com "In Turkey I Am Beautiful: Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land"] , a memoir of his travels in Turkey (Harper Collins 2008 ISBN 9780732285562), "The Secret Life of the Gold Coast: a journey into the dark heart of paradise" (Viking 2004, ISBN 0-670-04049-5) and of an unpublished biography of Australian celebrity Rose Porteous which was commissioned by publishers Duffy and Snellgrove but suppressed on legal grounds. He is currently working on a number of other books.
He currently resides in Sydney and writes an opinion column for Sydney's The Daily Telegraph. He recently moved there from The Sunday Telegraph where he'd written a successful music column for the last 7 years. Shanahan's parents are Dennis Shanahan, political editor of the major Australian newspaper The Australian, and columnist Angela Shanahan.
Bibliography
* "In Turkey I Am Beautiful: Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land" (Harper Collins 2008, ISBN 978-0-7322-8556-2) [http://www.inturkeyiambeautiful Website]
* "The Secret Life of the Gold Coast: a journey into the dark heart of paradise" (Viking 2004, ISBN 0-670-04049-5)
Notes
External links
* [http://www.brendanshanahan.net brendanshanahan.net:] Official Website
* [http://www.inturkeyiambeautiful.com In Turkey I Am Beautiful: Between Chaos and Madness in a Strange Land] Official Website
* [http://www.penguingroup.com.au/lookinside/spotlight.cfm?SBN=9780670040490&Page=Extract Extract of The Secret Life of the Gold Coast"] Penguin Group (Australia) (Retrieved 14 September 2007)
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