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R.B. McSWAIN

 

Bob McSwain was born in Victoria, Australia in 1951.

After enduring a dreary childhood in the newer suburbs of Melbourne, Bob experienced a sense of liberation when his family moved to the red gum plains of rural western Victoria where he spent most of his adolescence. Following his graduation from Longerenong Agricultural College in 1970, Bob taught in Australia and Japan before studying Medicine at Monash University.

Whilst living in England in the 1980's, Bob re-visited his recollections of the situation of aborigines on the fringes of rural communities which prompted him to write, The Sound of the Moon. This novel, which centres on the relationship between a gifted Aboriginal girl and a white boy from a wealthy pastoral family, was published in 1990 by Blue Crane Press.

Bob McSwain’s second book, My Son the Messiah, was published in 2005. It is a fictionalized account of the lives of the main characters of the New Testament. A colourful and imminently readable novel, My Son the Messiah presents the phenomenon of Messiahood in a way which contemporary readers, who have been exposed to such religious traditions as Buddhism and Hinduism, are able to relate to.

Bob McSwain's third novel, Bon Odori, which draws heavily on his experiences in Japan, is expected to be published soon.

Bob currently lives in a sandstone cottage in the lush Dandenong Rangers where, in addition to his writing activities, he continues to work as a doctor. But whilst his career in medicine pays most of the bills, he insists that writing is his true vocation.

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