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Carolyn Leach-Paholski Carolyn Leach-Paholski i(A74339 works by) (a.k.a. Carolyn Leach)
Born: Established: 1961 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Carolyn Leach-Paholski received a BA in 1984, and a Grad. Dip. in Librarianship in 1987, both from Melbourne University. She has worked as a reference librarian and project officer at Deakin University, and as publications officer in government and non-government organisations.

Leach-Paholski's awards and and prizes include: HQ Magazine short story prize 1997, Verandah National Poetry Prize 1998, The Somerset National Poetry Prize 2002 (formerly The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize), runner up Wildcare Tasmanian Nature Writer's Prize 2003. A novel in progress, The Grasshopper Shoe, was shortlisted for both a Varuna Manuscript Development Award and The David T.K. Wong Fellowship at the University of East Anglia (UK).

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 second place ACU Prize for Poetry for 'a poem on the perils of climate change from the perspective of her husband’s childhood and their eventual marriage'.
2015 shortlisted The Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize
2014 shortlisted Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards — Axel Clark Memorial Prize for Poetry For unpublished poem 'Migration'.
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Awards for Works

A Modern History of the Ear 2005 single work poetry
2005 commended Australian Capital Territory Poetry Prize — Rosemary Dobson Award for an Unpublished Poem by an Australian Poet
y separately published work icon The Grasshopper Shoe Canberra : Pandanus Books , 2005 Z1217008 2005 single work novel historical fiction

Set in southern China in the mid 1860s, this is the story of a French explorer-scientist and a young Chinese woman who meet during a cholera outbreak and fall in love. Lucien Battard sets out for the Far East on a doomed mission to disprove Darwin's theory of evolution by collecting enough exotica to prove the infinite mind of God. The story unfolds against a backdrop of cultural differences - social, historical and religious.

(Source: Book Depository)
2006 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region — Best First Book
Grass 2003 single work short story historical fiction
— Appears in: Island , Winter-Spring no. 93-94 2003; (p. 72-81)
2003 joint runner-up Wildcare Tasmania Nature Writing Prize
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