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Meaghan Delahunt Meaghan Delahunt i(A3953 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 ;
Gender: Female
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Meaghan Delahunt was born and educated in Melbourne. She was influenced by feminist thought at an early age and was actively involved in the Socialist Workers' Party while attending Melbourne University. Soon after breaking with the party in the 1980s she visited an exhibition of Frida Kahlo's paintings and began to think about Leon Trotsky's assassination in Mexico and his relationship to Kahlo and Diego Rivera. She expressed these thoughts in poetry, short fiction and eventually a novel, The Blue House (2001). The Blue House is widely admired and has won several prizes, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the best new novel from the South-East Asia and South Pacific region. She has also received support from Melbourne University's Asialink Residency Program to conduct research in India.

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Personal Awards

2002 recipient Asialink Arts Exchanges Program For residency in India

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon In the Blue House London : Bloomsbury , 2001 Z826344 2001 single work novel historical fiction

'This breathtaking first novel explores Leon Trotsky and his wife's years of Mexican exile in the home of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Mingled with the voices of Stalin's desolate young wife and that of Trotsky himself are the tales of the lesser known who have also created history–the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; the bodyguard who is unable to prevent the assassination. Together, the stories reveal the panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval in the twentieth century.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2002 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2002 winner Commonwealth Writers Prize South-East Asia and South Pacific First Work of Fiction
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