In 2009 the Italian translation of The Running Man was a finalists for the “Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Cento” Prize. In 2014 it was short-listed for the Prix Farniente in Belgium. In 2008 the German translation of The Running Man was short-listed for the German Youth Literature Prize and won the German Catholic Children’s and Young People’s Book Prize. It subsequently won the 2005 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Book of the Year for Older Readers and was short-listed for the NSW, Victoria and South Australian State Premiers’ Literary awards. In 2004 his first YA novel The Running Man was published to great acclaim. In 2000 he resigned from his full-time position as an English/Economics teacher to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. I was also motiva ted by the challenge of trying to tell a powerful story using only the simple language of an eleven year old boy.Michael Gerard Bauer was born and lives in Brisbane Australia. I became interes ted in maybe using some of them to write a dog story that would hopefully be something more than a dog story, about a dog, who though ordinary, was for his struggling, broken family, much more than just a dog. I also star ted to recall all the stories associa ted with the dogs our family owned when I was young – the funny stories, the weird stories, the happy stories and of course inevitably, the sad stories.
A big, white dog – loyal, friendly and gentle – but just an ordinary dog.
It was a big sounding name so I imagined a big dog. But the name stuck and it made me curious and I began to wonder what a dog called Mr Mosely might look like. I certainly wasn’t planning to write a story of a dog and we didn’t have a dog and we weren’t thinking of getting a dog. I’ve tried, but I can’t remember where it came from and I have no idea why I would have even been thinking of dog names. The idea for Just a Dog began one morning when I was out walking and for some reason the name ‘Mister Mosely’ for a dog came into my head. Thank you! Every novel I’ve written has always star ted out as some tiny thought or idea.
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