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Trent Dalton

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

29 February 2020

9:00 AM

He’s barely in his forties. He’s married with two nearly teenage daughters. He lives in Brisbane. He’s a staff journalist on the Weekend Australian Magazine. All fairly straight forward except that Trent Dalton also wrote the fastest-selling fiction debut in Australian history.

This very first book, a novel, Boy Swallows Universe, was published in 2018.

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