Prize-winning Australian writer Craig Silvey has appeared in courtroom charged with possessing and distributing baby exploitation materials.
Silvey, finest recognized for his novel Jasper Jones, was arrested on Monday after police raided his residence in Perth. Police alleged he was actively partaking with different baby exploitation offenders on-line after they arrived.
The 43-year-old father of three didn’t enter a plea throughout his look in Freemantle Magistrates Courtroom on Tuesday and was granted bail.
Jasper Jones is thought to be an Australian traditional. It has bought greater than half one million copies, is commonly a set textual content in colleges and was made into a movie starring Toni Collette in 2017.
The e-book gained the Australian Ebook Trade Awards Ebook of the Yr Award and was additionally shortlisted for the Worldwide Dublin Literary Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.
One other of his books, 2022 novel Runt, was additionally made into a movie starring Celeste Barber.
The sequel, Runt and the Diabolical Dognapping, was launched on the finish of final yr and was Australia’s primary “best-selling youngsters’s e-book” in response to its writer Allen & Unwin.
Silvey is to look in courtroom once more on 10 February.
