Introduction
Barry Dickins (born 1949) is an Australian author, artist, playwright and journalist.
Biography
He was born in the Melbourne suburb of Reservoir. Leaving school early he worked in a factory and then as a set-painter for television. Through his association with La Mama Theatre, his first play, Ghosts, was performed in 1974. He has subsequently written a further nine plays. His play Remember Ronald Ryan won him the 1995 Victorian Premier's Literary Award. He has also written short stories, biography and other non-fiction and children's books.
In 2009, he published his memoirs Unparalleled Sorrow, which discusses his career and his battle with depression. 2015 will see the publication by Black Pepper publishing of A Line Drawing of My Father, a memoir of the authors' father Len Dickins who served in the Second World War and was a commercial printer thereafter. It also gives a portrait of the working class northern suburbs of Melbourne.
He is now writing for Fairfax Media in the Sunday Age as a Journalist.