Born: Established: Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender:
Female
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2008 Australia Council Literature Board Grants — Grants for Emerging Writers $15,000
- 2007 recipient ASA Mentorship
Awards for Works
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y
Like Being a Wife
2009
North Sydney
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Vintage Australia
,
2010
Z1613104
2009
selected work
short story
'Daisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would as soon be married to herself, while Joannie has left her husband for a fling with the movie star, Ralph Fiennes. Brad is inspired by the Eureka uprising to break up with his girlfriend, and an unexpected influx of babies - two thousand of them - calls into question the meaning of Jenny's life.
Flitting from Sydney to Melbourne, Canberra to California, this loosely linked collection of stories shines a bright fluorescent light on family, friendships, work, love and loss.' (From the publisher's website.)
- 2011 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2011 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award
- 2009 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
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