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Debra Oswald

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Debra Oswald



Debra Oswald is a playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award and author of the novels Useful (2015), The Whole Bright Year (2018) and The Family Doctor (2021). She was creator/head writer of the first five seasons of the successful TV series Offspring.

Her stage plays have been performed around the world and published by Currency Press. Gary's House, Sweet Road and The Peach Season were all shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award. Debra has also written four plays for young audiences—Dags, Skate, Stories in the Dark and House on Fire. She has written three Aussie Bites books and six children's novels, including The Redback Leftovers.

Her television credits include award-winning
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Average rating: 3.9 · 7,371 ratings · 826 reviews · 33 distinct worksSimilar authors
The Family Doctor

3.85 avg rating — 2,986 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions
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One Hundred Years of Betty

4.17 avg rating — 2,539 ratings — published 2025 — 3 editions
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Useful

3.65 avg rating — 1,002 ratings — published 2015 — 7 editions
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The Whole Bright Year

3.53 avg rating — 460 ratings5 editions
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Stories in the Dark

3.73 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Blue Noise

3.59 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
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Getting Air

3.53 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1 — 2 editions
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Dags

3.24 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1987 — 7 editions
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The Fifth Quest (Taschen's ...

3.19 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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Gary's house (Current theat...

3.42 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
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“Honey, you bellyache and cry all you need. There’s no hierarchy of suffering. One variety of misfortune doesn’t invalidate another.”
Debra Oswald, One Hundred Years of Betty

“From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhill, even if it was a very gentle slope, coming to rest at a place of disappointment. Some spheres of an individual's life might have gone spectacularly well but there would always be an obstinate slab of disappointment in another department - a stalled career, inability to have kids, a dismal marriage, whatever.”
Debra Oswald, Useful

“Something unendurable happens, after which it is impossible to go on, and then people go on. Well, most do. When one of us shatters into a thousand pieces, that seems the natural response to tragedy. But usually, even then, we eventually gather up our pieces and the possibility of joy and silliness and excitement is, almost inconceivably, there again.”
Debra Oswald, One Hundred Years of Betty

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