Gregory Victor Babic
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Gregory Victor Babic | |
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Born | Melbourne, Australia | 16 October 1963
Died | 12 January 2013[1] | (aged 49)
Occupation | Author and writer |
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Gregory Victor Babic (16 October 1963 – 12 January 2013) was an Australian author of non-fiction and fiction.
Life
Babic was born in Melbourne, but moved to Sydney at about one month of age and lived in that city until he moved to Orange in the Central West of New South Wales in May 2010.
He graduated from
He worked briefly in the Australian Federal Police as a Constable in the mid-1980s. He was the President of his Recruit Training Class, and received the prize "For Excellence in Law Practice" upon graduation. However, in his second year it became clear to him that the AFP was not a good fit for him and vice versa, so he resigned to finish his education and become a teacher.
He wrote two non-fiction books for the education market, Study Success Know-How: A 1,001-Point Action Checklist Designed To Help You Take Control of Your Learning And Maximise Your Achievement Potential – Immediately! (
His writing won the
He died in 2013.
Awards
- Henry Lawson Prize for Prose, administered by the University of Sydney.
- University of Sydney Union Literary Competition (Prose Section).
Bibliography
Novels
- The Last Loose End (2009) ISBN 978-0-9822722-6-8
Young adult
- The Profile (2009) ISBN 978-0-9822056-6-2
Edited
- Words to Inspire Writers (2008) ISBN 978-0-9803722-0-5
Non-fiction
- Study Success Know-How – Second Edition (2002) ISBN 1-876932-19-8
- Film Study Terms (2003) ISBN 1-876932-97-X
References
- ^ "Gregory BABIC Obituary: View Gregory BABIC's Obituary by The Sydney Morning Herald". Tributes.smh.com.au. 12 January 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC-ND 3.0".