Born: Established: 1965 ;
Gender:
Female
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Most Referenced Works
Notes
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Volk has also published poetry and non-fiction features in newspapers and magazines in Australia and internationally.
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Volk is also one of two editors (with Moreen Dee) of the non-fiction work Women with a Mission: Personal Perspectives (Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, 2007).
Personal Awards
- 2007 longlisted Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Writers' Retreat Fellowship Three-week fellowship.
- 2006 Macquarie Group Foundation Longlines Program Residential fellowship at Varuna: The Writers' House.
- 2006 second place Australian Women's Weekly Short Story Contest For 'No Place Like Home'.
Awards for Works
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Desire Lines
Sydney
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Hachette
,
2020
18000386
2020
single work
novel
'Are you still a liar? The crafting of those five words, even without dispatch, left her chilled.
'Arctic Circle, 2012. On a lightless day at the end of the polar winter, landscape architect Evie Waddell finds herself exhuming the past as she buries Australian seeds in a frozen mountain vault - insurance against catastrophe.
'Molong, 1953. Catastrophe is all seven-year-old Paddy O'Connor has known. Shipped from institutional care in London to an Australian farm school, his world is a shadowy place where lies scaffold fragile truths and painful memories. To Paddy's south in Canberra, young Evie is safe in her family's embrace, yet soon learns there are some paths from which you can't turn back; impulses and threats that she only half understands but seems to have known forever.
'Blue Mountains, 1962. From their first meeting as teenagers at a country market, Paddy and Evie grow a compulsive, unconventional love that spans decades and crosses continents, taking them in directions neither could have foreseen.
'Set against the uneasy relationship society has with its own truth-telling in history, war and politics, Desire Lines is an epic story of love and the lies we tell ourselves to survive - and a moving reminder that even truths which seem lost forever can find their way home.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2020 winner Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Writing (Fiction)
- 2020 winner ACT Notable Awards — Fiction — Big Press
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Lightning
Sydney
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Pan Macmillan
,
2013
Z1930741
2013
single work
novel
fantasy
young adult
'Amid the chaos of sweeping bushfires, Persia gives birth alone at home with tragic consequences. Traumatised and grieving, she travels north, and encounters Ahmed, a refugee fleeing deportation and his past in Pakistan. So begins a road trip to the dead heart of Australia, a journey that transcends the limits of ordinary experience. In Persia and Ahmed's world, ancient winds wreak havoc across generations, lightning ignites flames that both destroy and rejuvenate, and water drowns then delivers. Hearts break, days are leavened with loss, laughter kills and cinnamon preserves. Lightning is an odyssey across continents and centuries that explores identity and connection, and our yearning to reveal ourselves even when cloaked in crippling grief. A glorious feat of magic realism, and a moving meditation on finding hope in the rubble of our lives, Lightning celebrates the way our stories and their telling keep us alive when all else is pulling us under.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2013 winner The Fellowship of Australian Writers Victoria Inc. National Literary Awards — Barbara Ramsden Award
- 2009 ACT Arts Grant For the research and writing of this novel.
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Ite, Missa Est
Go, You Are Sent Forth
Strawberry Hills
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Spineless Wonders
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2013
11449135
2013
single work
short story
'What effect does being without sexual intimacy have on our sense of identity? ‘Ite Misse Est’ explores this question through the experience of Berenice, a retired nun. The story is also about Berenice’s life-long friend, Mary and what happens when the people we love move beyond our reach, and how to find the grace necessary to send them forth (Ite Misse Est), with or without us.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2012 winner The Carmel Bird Digital Literary Award
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