Author: Robb Peter Robb

Peter Robb”s first book, Midnight in Sicily (1996), was a bestseller in Australia and the UK. It won the Victorian Premier”s Prize for Nonfiction in 1997. His book M (1998), about the painter Michelangelo Merisi from Caravaggio, won the same prize, and the National Biography Award, two years later. It was a bestseller in the US and a New York Times Notable Book for 2000. A Death in Brazil (2003) was the Age Nonfiction Book of the Year and won the Queensland Premier”s Award for Nonfiction in 2004. Peter Robb has also published a book of pulp novellas called Pig”s Blood and Other Fluids (1999), which won nothing.