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Yvette Walker Yvette Walker i(A152793 works by)
Born: Established: 1970 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Yvette Walker holds a BA (Hons) and a PhD from Curtin University.

Letters to the End of Love, Walker's first novel, evolved out of a short story called 'Dear Reader', which won the 2003 HQ Magazine National Short Story Competition.

In 2009 Yvette won the Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for Fiction, has held several residences at Varuna, the Writer's Centre, and was a visiting writer at the Michael King Writers' Centre.

She has also published short fiction in Australian and international anthologies and periodicals. In addition to works individually indexed on AustLit, she has published in The Nightwatchman, the Wisden cricket quarterly.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

Telephone 2018 single work short story
— Appears in: Meet Me at the Intersection 2018;
2019 shortlisted Tin Duck Award, Western Australian Science Fiction Foundation (WASFF) — Best WA Short Written Work
y separately published work icon Letters to the End of Love St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013 Z1924877 2013 single work novel 'In a coastal village in Cork in 1969, a Russian painter and his Irish novelist wife write letters to one another as they try to come to terms with a fatal illness. On Australia's west coast in 2011, a bookseller writes to her estranged partner in an attempt to understand what has happened to their relationship. In Bournemouth in 1948, a retired English doctor writes letters to the love of his life, a German artist he lived with In the Vienna during the 1930s. The simple three domestic lives of these three couples are set against conversations about intimacy, art, war and loss.' (Publisher's blurb)
2014 winner Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer
2014 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
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