George Man

George Man is a Dutch-Australian author who has published four books in the Blue series, including Blue, Sandra and Blue, The Return of a Champion and The Triumphant Three. George originally set out to write an autobiography, but soon realised that he simply couldn't face the task: having dealt with both triumph and tragedy throughout his colourful life. One night, Blue brought himself to life in George's imagination, and the rest is history! While the Blue series is made for children, it is loved and appreciated by the young and old and is a treasure to animal lovers of all ages.

George Man was born in Indonesia and spent time as a young child in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. His family later moved to Holland, where he

George Man is a Dutch-Australian author who has published four books in the Blue series, including Blue, Sandra and Blue, The Return of a Champion and The Triumphant Three. George originally set out to write an autobiography, but soon realised that he simply couldn't face the task: having dealt with both triumph and tragedy throughout his colourful life. One night, Blue brought himself to life in George's imagination, and the rest is history! While the Blue series is made for children, it is loved and appreciated by the young and old and is a treasure to animal lovers of all ages.

George Man was born in Indonesia and spent time as a young child in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. His family later moved to Holland, where he spent his formative years and studied tropical and subtropical agriculture at college.


George's first job was as a plantation assistant in Papua New Guinea, and he was soon promoted to plantation manager. After sixteen months of living there alone, his French fiancée, Joëlze, came over, and they worked together on plantations for five years. They went on to have two beautiful children: a daughter, Sabina, and one son, George.


After being employed by a mining company and an insurance company, George worked nineteen years for Caltex Oil in different parts of Australia and Papua New Guinea, where he managed many different roles in marketing, auditing, IT, training and strategic operations. During that time, he was involved with Dutch clubs, the New South Wales Federation of Dutch Societies and, with the help of his family, was President of The New South Wales Holland Festival on four occasions, which was an annual event at the Fairfield Show Ground in Sydney, Australia, that attracted crowds of up to 50,000 people.

In November 1988, George and Joëlze were host to Queen Beatrix and Prins Klaus of the Netherlands at a special festival. During that time, they had lunches with the royal guests at Parliament House in Canberra and state offices in Sydney.

From 1992-1999, George, his wife and children managed two successful service stations. After that they retired to the country town of Gunnedah, New South Wales--first in a beautiful house and later in a retirement unit. Sadly, George and his wife are no strangers to tragedy, as they lost both their daughter and daughter-in-law in the 2000s.

In his retirement, George plays golf and continues to write short stories. He is currently working on a bundle of Christmas books and a few other ideas are in the pipeline.