Bradley Trevor Greive (BTG) is one of
Australia's
most prolific and successful authors. He has written 20 books which
have been translated into 27 different languages, and have been sold in
115 different countries. Several of which have appeared in the
New York Times bestseller list. Greive's work has won multiple awards worldwide and has sold more than 20 million copies.
[1] He lives mostly in
Tasmania, Australia.
Early life and career
Greive was born in
Hobart, Tasmania
to Dr Trevor Colin Greive and Nita Fay Greive, and spent his childhood
living with his parents and sisters in numerous countries across
Europe and
Asia. He returned to Australia in 1979 to finish his schooling at
Tweed Valley College in
Sydney, where he was awarded
Dux in 1988.
[citation needed]
Greive served as a
paratrooper after leaving high school, and underwent training at the
Royal Military College in
Duntroon[citation needed]. While an undergraduate at RMC,
Duntroon, Greive undertook a military exchange with the
Royal Thai Military Academy, during which he toured Thai/Cambodian border military installations and refugee camps.
[citation needed] Upon graduation as a commissioned officer (
Lieutenant) Greive was posted to the
3rd Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment (Para),
and assumed command of 1st Platoon, Alpha Company – a paratroop combat
rifle platoon. Greive’s specialist combat qualifications include:
Airborne Operations, Air Mobile Operations, Survival, Mine Warfare &
Anti Handling Devices (Instructor), Heavy Weapons – Direct Fire
Weapons, Anti-Armour, Heavy Machine Guns (Instructor).
[2]
He continued to serve in this capacity until 1993, when he left the
military due to a tropical respiratory infection that led to asthma.
[3]
Greive subsequently worked across several creative fields (including media such as television, radio and published cartoons)
[citation needed]
before his debut as a successful author in 2000, which led to the
inception of BTG Studios, followed by The Lost Bear Company and the
uptake of several notable creative projects, which he continues to work
on to the present.
Creative career
Publishing
- See also: list of books published by BTG
Greive rose to prominence as an author in 2000 with the release of his hugely successful
Blue Day Book, a collection of amusing animal photos and inspirational text designed to "lift the spirits of anyone who has got the blues."
[1] Since then he has published in excess of 20 books and has won numerous awards for his work, including the
ABA Book of the Year Award (2000), the
APA Best Designed Children’s Non-fiction Book Award
(2003) and numerous #1 placings in bestseller lists across the world.
Greive's work has been published on 6 continents and has sold in excess
of 20 million copies to date.
[1]
Television and radio
In 1996 Greive became a creative consultant and writer for Godfrey Bigot's weekly political sketches on
Channel 7's
Today Tonight, and went on to pursue a similar role in 1997 with
MTV Australia.
[citation needed] In 1998, Greive collaborated with
Kapow Pictures to write and direct an animated short for
Nickelodeon called
Agent Green,
[4] and a short film called
Show & Tell which won the
Comgraph Animation Gold Award, the
Tellrude Film Festival Best Short Film Award, the
Danish International 3D Award, and was nominated for an
AFI Award.
[citation needed]
In 2007 he produced and hosted The World According to Bradley Trevor Greive on Tasmania's community radio station
Star FM and produced two sell out performances of An Intimate Evening with John Cleese
[5] - starring
John Cleese and featuring
Richard Morecroft, one with
Paul Chesher and
4D Events.
Greive has long enjoyed a close relationship with ABC Radio and
Television, appearing on numerous programs over the past decade,
including Stateline,
[6] ABC National News, ABC Radio National Night Club,
[7] and an appearance on Creature Features with his pet rabbit, Biff.
[8]
On 21 April 2007, Greive read his poem Welcome to the East Coast
(after the fire), during the live broadcast from the ABC ‘Back to St
Helens’ concert to acknowledge the heroic efforts of the East Coast
community who rallied together during the devastating forest fires of
December 2006.
[9]
Over December 2009 and January 2010, BTG presented ABC Radio National
Evenings (hosted by Christopher Lawrence) with his ‘E-Mail From
America’
[10]
- a weekly series of eclectic and humorous reports from Florida, USA.
The title of BTG’s program was a tongue in cheek homage to the late
Alistair Cooke’s ‘[Letter From America]’, “a weekly 15-minute radio
series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for
2,869 shows from 24 March 1946, to 20 February 2004, making it the
longest-running speech radio programme in history. The programme was
also broadcast for many years on the BBC World Service.”
[citation needed]
BTG and Christopher Lawrence teamed up again, this time on ABC
Classic FM, over Monday, 5 April 2010 to co-host “The Life Changers”,
the finale of First Time Classics, a publicly voted classical music
showcase, produced by Marian Arnold.
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