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Verity Borthwick Verity Borthwick i(10286057 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Verity Borthwick is a writer from New South Wales.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2021 shortlisted The Furphy Literary Award ‘Six Pairs of Shoes’
2020 shortlisted Alan Marshall Short Story Award Open Section for 'Van Diemen's Land'.

Awards for Works

The Sound of Light 2021 single work essay
— Appears in: Island , no. 162 2021; (p. 50-53)

'Children conceived under the northern lights are blessed with intelligence and wisdom. It turns out this is a recent urban legend masquerading as ancient knowledge, Still, it has propagated and even appears on the Greenland tourism website, which is where I read it. I did not know this when I visited Greenland, but something about the idea of phantasmal lights had the feel of fate, and it gave me hope.' (Introduction)

2021 shortlisted Island Nonfiction Prize
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