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Glenys Osborne Glenys Osborne i(A112078 works by) (a.k.a. Glinys Osborne; G. L. Osborne)
Gender: Female
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Melbourne-based Glenys Osborne began her career as a proofreader in typesetting tradehouses and later became managing editor at Macmillan Education and then at Thomson Learning (now Cengage). Osborne went on to work as a freelance editor and has taught editing in RMIT's MA in Communications course.

Source: Victorian Society of Editors website, http://www.socedvic.org/
Sighted: 17/09/2008

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y separately published work icon Come Inside Thornbury : Clouds of Magellan , 2010 Z1669242 2010 single work novel historical fiction

'A ship is wrecked in 1887 near the small country town of Colego. The sea throws up one troubled survivor who claims to know only her name.

'Glenys Osborne's compelling first novel traces the impact of the loss of the Lucy on the town of Colego and how the tidal pull of this event shapes and disturbs those who come after.' (From the publisher's website.)
2011 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
2011 winner Barbara Jefferis Award
2010 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
2010 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
A House Was Built around You While You Slept 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: The Age , 10 January 2009; (p. 22-23)
2008 second The Age Short Story Competition
Mermaid Footwear 2008 single work short story
— Appears in: Etchings , no. 4 2008; (p. 15-21) New Australian Stories 2009; (p. 264-271)
2007 Commended The Age Short Story Competition
2007 Winner Glen Eira Literary Awards
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