Award‑winning author Craig Silvey has been jailed for for seven months after pleading guilty to distributing and possessing child exploitation material. Disgraced Australian author Craig Silvey is jailed by a Perth judge after admitting he distributed graphic images of adults abusing children over a messaging service. Disgraced children’s book author Craig Silvey has been jailed for seven months after it was revealed the Fremantle father admitted to ‘drooling’ over a sexually explicit.