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George Haddad George Haddad i(9353297 works by)
Gender: Male
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Australian author.

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y separately published work icon Losing Face Losing Face : A Novel St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2022 23603642 2022 single work novel

'A stunning, thought-provoking novel about facing up to your family and your future, dealing with timely issues around sexual consent and inherited trauma. Joey is young, indifferent. He’s drifting around Western Sydney unaware of how his passivity might lead him even further adrift, off the rails, into a violent crime.

'Meanwhile his grandmother Elaine – a proud Lebanese woman – tries to hold her family and herself together in the wake of Joey’s actions. In her family, history repeats itself, vices come and go, and uncovering long-buried secrets isn’t always cathartic.

'This gripping and hard-hitting novel reveals the richness and complexity of contemporary Australian life and tests the idea that facing consequences will make us better people.' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction
2023 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
2023 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2023 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2022 shortlisted Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Kátharsis 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Winter no. 235 2019; (p. 27-31)

'I drive the ATV south from the hotel to Jackie O’ Beach Club. Kosta is on the back with one arm around my waist and the other gripping his phone, filming for Instagram. I tell him to put his phone away a lot but this time I get it. I park suddenly.' (Introduction)

2019 winner Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize
y separately published work icon Populate and Perish Surry Hills : Seizure , 2016 9926268 2016 single work novella

'Populate and Perish is the story of Nick, a young man in Melbourne, and his sister Amira who travel to Lebanon after the death of their mother looking for their estranged father – neither is prepared for what they find.'

Source: Seizure (http://seizureonline.com/and-the-winners-are/). (Sighted: 03/03/2016)

2016 joint winner Viva La Novella Award
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