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Susan Addison Susan Addison i(A64888 works by)
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Susan Addison has worked as a journalist and editor in Australia and internationally. She has taught editing skills at university level and wrote A Good Plain Cook: An Edible History of Queensland (1999). The death of Addison's son, Charlie, to cancer in 1995 inspired the collection of stories Mother Lode (2001). Rex Addison, her husband and Charlie's father, produced a series of linocut prints to accommpany the stories.

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y separately published work icon Mother Lode : Stories of Home Life and Home Death St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2001 Z920843 2001 selected work short story Contains a selection of short stories written after the death of the author's teenage son, Charlie. They explore the meaning and importance of home and grieving.
2002 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
2002 winner Queensland Premier's Literary Awards — Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award
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