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Lexi Freiman Lexi Freiman i(13967527 works by)
Gender: Female
Departed from Australia: 2010
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BiographyHistory

Australian actor and author.

Freiman graduated from Columbia's Master of Fine Arts program in 2012. In 2018, she was based in Manhattan.

Before leaving Australia for New York, Freiman worked with the Bell Shakespeare Company, appearing in As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and Pericles.

In 2022, it was announced that her follow-up novel The Book of Ayn, would be published by Catapult in 2023.

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y separately published work icon Inappropriation Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2018 13967581 2018 single work novel

'Ziggy Klein (named after the gender-bending icon David Bowie) has a lot on her mind. It's confusing for any girl living in a culture where the opposition leader might pinch the female Prime Minister's bum; where your mum might demand your dad tie her up but stay connected to his heart chakra; where girls at your school assembly perform racy dance routines to the theme song from Schindler's List, and your best friends seek fame as feminists with perfect asses.

'Fifteen-year-old Ziggy is dealing with her late-blooming, yet burgeoning sexuality and, simultaneously, dawning adulthood. But do not be mistaken—this is no ordinary coming-of-age story. It's literary satire at its most dexterous, capturing and commenting on many elements of the zeitgeist-intersectional feminism, technology's effects on teen culture, gender and sexual politics, race, and political correctness—with the one-two punch of Ziggy's teenaged perspective and Lexi Freiman's sharp wit.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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