Brooke Robinson is an award-winning playwright turned novelist from Sydney. Her debut novel The Interpreter is published in June 2023 as a lead crime title with Harvill Secker/Vintage (Penguin Random House) in the UK and Commonwealth countries, where it was acquired in a six figure pre-empt as part of a two-book deal. Rights have also been sold in the US to HarperCollins and to publishers in Germany and Italy at auction. 

As a professional playwright, Brooke’s plays have been produced at Casula Powerhouse, Griffin Theatre, The Old Fitzroy Theatre and the Bondi Pavilion in Sydney, and at Vault festival and the prestigious Old Vic Theatre in London. She won the 2020 Lysicrates Prize for Drama and has taught creative writing at Westwords and City of Melbourne Libraries.