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Carly Nugent is a Victorian-based writer. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 2007, where she studied Creative Writing and Literature. Since then, Nugent has written mostly for the theatre and her play Shots was awarded the R.E. Ross Trust Playwrights' Script Development Award in 2009.

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y separately published work icon Sugar Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2022 23602646 2022 single work novel young adult

'What’s yours is yours for a reason. Luck has nothing to do with it.

'Some people get exactly what they deserve. And, as it turns out, I deserve to be called Persephone. No simple-to-sound-out Pride-and-Prejudice-style name like Elizabeth or Jane for me. Nope. Demi had to go Greek. Define Persephone. Bringer of destruction. That pretty much sums it up.

'Persephone is angry. Angry that her life revolves around finger-prick tests, carbohydrate counts and insulin injections. Angry at Alexander Manson. Angry with her mum for lots of things, for nothing and for everything.
But most of all, she’s angry with herself. For deserving it all. Because one year ago she did something and her dad died.

'But then Persephone finds a body on a bush path, a young woman she doesn’t know but feels a strong connection to. And as she tries to find out what happened to Sylvia, Persephone begins to understand her own place in the complex interconnectedness of the universe.

'Sugar is the story of a sixteen-year-old girl trying to make sense of the life-changing events that have sent her world into a spin, her search for a reason behind it all, and ultimately her acceptance of life’s randomness.' (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Young Adults' Fiction
2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2023 winner APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Young Adult Book designed by Imogen Stubbs.
2022 selected White Ravens
2023 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2023 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Writing for Young Adults
2023 longlisted Indie Awards Young Adult
2022 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
y separately published work icon The Peacock Detectives Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2018 12286482 2018 single work children's fiction children's

'The last time William Shakespeare and Virginia went missing Cassie found them sitting on a coiled hose behind the fire station, and Dad called her ‘Cassie Andersen, Peacock Detective’. So this time she knows what to do—she’ll look for clues and track them down. But the clues lead her in an unexpected direction and Cassie finds herself investigating a confusing mystery about her family. The Peacock Detectives is a warm and engaging story for middlegrade readers about dealing with change and finding out who you are.' (Publication summary)

2020 shortlisted West Australian Young Readers' Book Award Younger Readers
2019 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2019 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Children's Novel
2019 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Children’s Fiction Book
2019 Honour book CBCA Book of the Year Awards Book of the Year: Younger Readers
2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Younger Readers
2019 winner Readings Prizes The Readings Children’s Book Prize
2017 shortlisted Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing
Jeremy 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 12 no. 2 2012; Award Winning Australian Writing 2013 2013; (p. 202-209)
2012 Perilous Adventures Short Story Award
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