Roberts biography

About the author of Gregory David Roberts, the real name is Gregory John Peter Smith - a modern Australian writer specializing in adventure literature. Gregory was born on June 21 in Melbourne, Australia. When the family broke up in adulthood, and the custody of his daughter passed to his ex -wife, Roberts plunged into such despair that he began to constantly use heroin. The dependence and the need to constantly supply himself with drugs, which was obtained, pushed him to rob various insured institutions.

The crimes committed by him logically ended with imprisonment for nineteen years, which began in the year. Despite this, two years later Gregory managed to escape from a maximum security prison, leave the country and settle on another continent, in Bombay. Here he lived for more than ten years, but contacted the local mafia and, in the early nineties, was arrested again when delivering the party of heroin to Germany.

Because of this, Roberts was extradited to his homeland, where he again ended up in prison, where he spent more than six years. Gregori himself admits that he was repeated to escape, but halfway he changed his mind and decided to honestly leave the entire sentence in order to be able to return to his family. Gregory David Roberts: It is noteworthy that the interest in literary work woke up in Roberts after he was caught with the Heroin party in Germany, and he was in prison for the second time.

According to him, it was the detention in Frankfurt and the time spent there in prison for terrorists that made him rethink his life and make an important decision - to embark on the path of correction. After extradition and re -conclusion, Gregori began work on the Roman “Chantara”, which was twice destroyed by local warders. Despite everything, the writer after liberation from prison continued to work on the work.

The book was published in the year and received many positive readers' reviews. According to critics, the “chantaras” deserves attention, since the following motives are revealed in it: philosophy and attitude to a person’s life, who has lost everything overnight; complete immersion in despair and the achievement of the bottom of life; Attempts to escape from reality in the most murderous ways; Return to a decent and honest life, where there is a place of love and family.

The novel became so popular that in the year they began to look for an opportunity for its adaptation. The script for the planned film was written by the author himself. The second and last Gregori book today has been published in Russian in the middle of the winter of the year under the name “Shadow of the Mountain”. This is the second part of the novel “Shantara”, which tells the story of the protagonist after the death of his boss and the leader of the Mafia Kaderbhai, and the beauty of Carla, who became the wife of the local media Magnate.

In addition to literary creativity, Roberts was actively engaged in charity, aimed at helping the poor and solving environmental problems. However, in the year he ceased to closely communicate with public organizations, the media and readers, preferring to devote all the time to the family and work. Similar authors.