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Celeste Walters Celeste Walters i(A11868 works by) (a.k.a. Celeste Sowden)
Born: Established: 1936 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Celeste Walters was born and educated in Melbourne. She has been a school teacher, an art gallery director, a children's theatre actor and manager, and for thirteen years a lecturer in drama and language and literature at Victoria College (now Deakin University). In 1989 she was writer-in-residence at WACAE (now Edith Cowen University) and from 1990 was a part-time lecturer in drama at La Trobe University.

Her publications include playscripts for children and adults, children's readers and texts on developmental drama. She has also written a book on the writing of eulogies.

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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon At Seventeen St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2008 Z1473116 2008 single work novel young adult 'Cat and her younger brother are at boarding school while their parents are working in Barcelona, Spain. Cat hates it and believes her mother has just dumped her there to get rid of her. When her maternal grandmother dies it is a catalyst for Cat to understand her mother and come to terms with family and friends.' (Publisher's blurb)
2008 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Best Young Adult Book
y separately published work icon The Glass Mountain St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2003 Z1021161 2003 single work novel young adult

'Ossie is an outcast. Traveling with his late father's bike gang, his head is full of his father's death and his mother's abandonment. Ossie's life goes from bad to worse. He crashes his bike, is reviled by his gang, and spends months in recovery. Then he meets Essie Ellis, a manipulative little old lady with a passion for living. Their relationship takes Ossie on a physical and emotional journey where he learns, through Essie's experience of life, what it means to love and be loved. Ossie learns about life from her - about words, ideas and books - with poignant reference to The Wind in the Willows deftly woven through the novel. Essie tells him the legend of the Glass Mountain and together they take a journey that will end in a trial and a conviction, but also in a life redeemed.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2004 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
y separately published work icon The Killing of Mud-Eye St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z78172 1997 single work novel young adult

'We were savages, all of us ... Yes, savages; and I was worse than anyone because I stood back and watched.

'Could Ned really have changed the devastating events that occurred in his last years at school? Could he have influenced the gangleader who sadistically menaced their schoolmates? A chilling novel exposing the power of adolescent peer groups in secondary school playgrounds.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
1997 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction
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