Odo Hirsch (b. 1962 in Melbourne) is an Australian author of children's books. He was born in Melbourne, where he trained to be a doctor, but moved to London, where he currently lives. After working as a doctor in both Melbourne and London, he joined Amnesty International, where he reported on torture victims and examined hospital conditions in Eastern Europe. After doing a masters degree in political thought at Cambridge University, he joined McKinsey Consulting in 1997. This was when his first novel for children, Antonio S and the Mystery of Theodore Guzman, was published. He went on to write nine more children's novels, one of which, Bartlett and the Ice Voyage, won the Blue Peter Book Award. Other books include the Hazel Green books and Yoss for young adults.
