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Meaghan Delahunt Meaghan Delahunt i(A3953 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 ;
Gender: Female
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1 1 y separately published work icon The Night-Side of the Country Meaghan Delahunt , Crawley : UWA Publishing , 2020 18652481 2020 single work novel

'It is the Time of the Felled Men.

'M, a writer, finds her own past triggered by the constant revelations of misogyny and violence. The novel she is writing stalls. She involves herself in #MeToo and this has consequences - including the threat of litigation. She retreats to a guesthouse on a holy island (a fictional Iona) and there she encounters B - a woman who may or may not be a figment of her imagination - a woman who may or may not be Irish. This encounter takes M’s novel in a different direction. B is reckoning with her violent political past in an organisation known as the Movement. B also suffers the consequences of stepping forward in this period. She has been on the run since speaking out against gender violence.

'All the way through, the threat looms large: A man may come here. We both know this much.

'The novel plays with modes of storytelling to address the central questions: How do we deal with trauma and gender violence? How do we give voice to that which has been unvoiced? How do we heal?

'This feminist genre-crossing novel explores the creative process as a place of refuge, ambiguity, and as a starting point for resistance. The place where the ‘You' and the ‘I' connect.' (Publication summary)

1 1 y separately published work icon Greta Garbo’s Feet and Other Stories Meaghan Delahunt , Edinburgh : Word Power Women , 2015 18006974 2015 selected work short story
2 2 y separately published work icon To the Island Meaghan Delahunt , London : Granta , 2011 Z1814945 2011 single work novel 'In search of her father Andreas, whom she has never met, Lena travels with her small son from Australia to Greece. On the island of Naxos she finds him, a wary, tormented man living in self-imposed exile. Slowly Lena unlocks the secrets of her father's past, and in getting to know him begins to understand the grim realities of contemporary Greek history. Like many politically active Greeks, Andreas was arrested and tortured during the rule of the Colonels in the sixties, disappearing for several years without trace.

To the Island is a book about the impact of larger political events on the lives of ordinary people, and how political and personal betrayals reverberate across generations. It beautifully evokes the currents and cross-currents between individuals, within families and in broader society. And in Lena and Andreas's stories, it shows how difficult it is to confront our personal and collective pasts - and the terrible consequences of being unable to do so.' (Publisher's blurb)
2 4 y separately published work icon The Red Book Meaghan Delahunt , London : Granta , 2008 Z1487540 2008 single work novel

'Françoise, an Australian photographer, travels to Bhopal in India, where 20 years earlier a gas leak killed thousands. There she meets Naga, a Tibetan refugee whose family died in the disaster, and Arkay, a Scottish traveler battling addiction, who has found solace in Buddhism. As a testament to their time together Françoise assembles photographs from their lives into an album, the Red Book. The photographs tell their stories of love, struggle and transformation—pointing to the people they have been and who they will become. The three narrators' beautifully realized voices show how lives entwine and split apart, and the story captures the irresistible lure of India for outsiders, the promise of its spirituality, and its layered history.' (Publication summary)

1 7 y separately published work icon In the Blue House Meaghan Delahunt , London : Bloomsbury , 2001 Z826344 2001 single work novel historical fiction

'This breathtaking first novel explores Leon Trotsky and his wife's years of Mexican exile in the home of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Mingled with the voices of Stalin's desolate young wife and that of Trotsky himself are the tales of the lesser known who have also created history–the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; the bodyguard who is unable to prevent the assassination. Together, the stories reveal the panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval in the twentieth century.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In the Blue House at Coyoacan Meaghan Delahunt , 1998 single work short story
— Appears in: Heat , no. 9 1998; (p. 6-16)
1 T-Song (for Steven Pizaro 1961-1996) Meaghan Delahunt , 1997 single work short story
— Appears in: Westerly , Spring vol. 42 no. 3 1997; (p. 89-97)
1 Birthing Meaghan Delahunt , 1991 single work short story
— Appears in: Body Lines : A Women's Anthology 1991; (p. 97-102)
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