Kel Robertson
# Kel Robertson

Kel Robertson is an Australian novelist who was born in the 1950s on the south coast of New South Wales. His novel Smoke & Mirrors shared the 2009 Ned Kelly Award for Best Novel, with Deep Water by Peter Corris.

Robertson lived in Sydney and various New South Wales country towns before entering high school in Bathurst. He has studied at a number of tertiary institutions and lives in Canberra.

He is the author of three novels featuring the Chinese-Australian Federal Police investigator, Brad Chen </ref> Austlit - Kel Robertson</ref> and has completed a fourth Chen book. He is the author also of two bureaucratic black comedies under the pen name A C Bland, as well as a futuristic crime novel under the pen name Belle Currer.

## Novels

* Dead Set (2006)
* Smoke and Mirrors (2008)
* Rip Off (2011)
* The Final Trials of Alan Mewling (2016)
* The Earlier Trials of Alan Mewling (2019)
* Dare to Think (2019): a dystopian crime novel featuring the Cornwall Police Inspector, Melissa Raeburn.

## Awards

* 2006 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards — Best First Novel for Dead Set
* 2009 winner Ned Kelly Awards — Best Novel for Smoke and Mirrors
* 2009 winner ACT Writers Centre's Literary Awards — Fiction for Smoke and Mirrors
* 2009 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing for Smoke and Mirrors
