Writing and Publications
In addition to writing for theatre, television and film, Vizard has written and edited several books, including a 2008 biography of Graham Kennedy, Graham Kennedy Treasures: Friends Remember the King (Melbourne University Publishing, 2008, ISBN 978-0-522-85545-6) which he co-wrote with veteran writer, Mike McColl-Jones.
Other books include Best Australian Humorous Writing (with Andrew O'Keefe, MUP, 2008), Australia's Population Challenge (with Hugh J. Martin and Tim Watts, Penguin, 2003,ISBN 0-14-300113-2); Two Weeks in Lilliput (Penguin, 1998), an account of Vizard's experiences attending the 1998 Australian Constitutional Convention; Fast forward, the book: the complete guide to 3000 years of television (ISBN014013400); and The Top seven lists from 'Tonight live with Steven Vizard' (ISBN1863301623).
Vizard's one man play Coles Funny Picture Man, based on the life of the eccentric Victorian bookseller Edward William Cole, was performed by AFI award winning actor Norman Kaye.
Vizard has been the recipient of an Australia Council grant for Poetry and a University of Melbourne Writers Fellowship. He was nominated for a Writers Guild Award for Best Feature Film Screenplay in 1985; and won (as a co-writer) Writers Guild Awards for Best Comedy Television in 1989, 1990, 1992 1nd 1993.
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