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Elizabeth Kuiper Elizabeth Kuiper i(8872534 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Australian author.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2018 shortlisted Hal Porter Short Story Competition for 'The Trouble with Suicide'.
2015 longlisted The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Little Stones St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15450859 2019 single work novel

'An autobiographical coming-of-age story set in Zimbabwe during a time of political turmoil by a talented new author. Hannah lives in Zimbabwe during the reign of Robert Mugabe: it's a country of petrol queues and power cuts, and police with loaded rifles who patrol the city streets. By all accounts, Hannah is lucky. She can afford to go to school, has never had to skip a meal, and lives in a big house with her mum and their African housekeeper, Gogo. Hannah is wealthy, she is healthy, and she is white. But there are some things money can't buy. Money can't stop your divorced parents from fighting. Money can't buy back your grandparents' farm. Money can't always keep you safe. Her luck in life has kept her sheltered for a long time, but things are beginning to change. As she is forced to navigate the increased tension between her warring parents, the differences between herself and her peers, and her relationship with Gogo, Hannah starts questioning much of what she previously thought to be true.'  (Publication summary)

2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
Snow in Africa 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Voiceworks , Spring no. 97 2014; (p. 7-10) Award Winning Australian Writing 2015 2015; (p. 39-50)
''Mvududu' is the Shona word for 'motorbike'. The syllables mimic the sound of the engine starting up. Mvududu. My Grandpa would take me on motorbike rides when we had the tobacco farm...'  (Publication abstract)
2015 joint winner Express Media Awards Best fiction piece
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