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The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Australian Novelists award was created in 1997 by the newspaper's literary editor, Susan Wyndham and is made annually. The awards recognise emerging writing talent, and are made to writers who are aged 35 years or younger when their book is first published. The award criteria were relaxed in 2009 to allow the inclusion of short story collections. That year, Nam Le won the award with his short story collection, ''The Boat''. The judges change regularly, and the number of novelists named as "Best Young Australian Novelist" each year varies. Ten were named in the Award's first year. Past winners 2022 * Ella Baxter, ''New Animal'' * Michael Burrows, ''Where the Line Breaks'' * Diana Reid, ''Love and Virtue'' 2021 * Vivian Pham, ''The Coconut Children'' * Jessie Tu, ''A Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing'' * K.M. (Kate) Kruimink, ''Treacherous Country'' 2020 * Alice Bishop, ''A Constant Hum'' * Joey Bui, ''Lucky Ticket'' * Josephine Row ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vivian Pham
Vivian Pham (/vɪvi.ən/; born October 22, 2000) is a Vietnamese-Australian author. In 2021 she won thThe Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Awardand the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for her work. Her first book, ''The Coconut Children,'' published in 2020 by Vintage Australia, an imprint of Penguin Books is set in 1990s Cabramatta. The novel won her recognition as one of The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists as well as the Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards. It was also shortlisted for both the Victorian Premier's Prize for Fiction and the Voss Literary Prize in 2021. References External links * Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Australian novelists Australian women novelists {{Australia-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wyndham
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), from Greek ''Sousanna'', from Latin ''Susanna'', from Old French ''Susanne''. Variations * Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah * Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah * Susann, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne (given name), Suzanne * Susanne (given name) * Suzan (given name) * Suzanne * Suzette (given name) * Suzy (given name) * Zuzanna (given name) *Cezanne (Avant-garde) Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Poosan, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * fa, سوسن (Sousan, Susan) ** tg, Савсан (Savsan), tg, Сӯсан (Sūsan) * ku, Sosna,Swesne * ar, سوسن (Sawsan) * hy, Շուշան (Šušan) * (Sushan) * Sujan in K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Koh
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Paul D
Paul may refer to: *Paul (given name), a given name (includes a list of people with that name) *Paul (surname), a list of people People Christianity *Paul the Apostle (AD c.5–c.64/65), also known as Saul of Tarsus or Saint Paul, early Christian missionary and writer *Pope Paul (other), multiple Popes of the Roman Catholic Church *Saint Paul (other), multiple other people and locations named "Saint Paul" Roman and Byzantine empire *Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (c. 229 BC – 160 BC), Roman general *Julius Paulus Prudentissimus (), Roman jurist *Paulus Catena (died 362), Roman notary *Paulus Alexandrinus (4th century), Hellenistic astrologer *Paul of Aegina or Paulus Aegineta (625–690), Greek surgeon Royals *Paul I of Russia (1754–1801), Tsar of Russia *Paul of Greece (1901–1964), King of Greece Other people *Paul the Deacon or Paulus Diaconus (c. 720 – c. 799), Italian Benedictine monk *Paul (father of Maurice), the father of Maurice, Byzan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romy Ash
Romy is a given name, often a diminutive form of names such as Rosemary or Roman or Romeo. https://nameberry.com/babyname/romy/boy People with the name include: Men *Romy Cachola, nickname of Romeo Munoz Cachola, Philippines-born Hawaiian politician *Romy Diaz (1940–2005), real name José Roméo Bustillos Díaz, Filipino actor *Romy González (born 1996), nickname of Roman A. González, American baseball player for the Chicago White Sox *Romy Gosz (1910–1966), nickname for Roman Luis Gosz, American polka musician *Romy Haag (born 1948), real name Edouard Frans Verba, Dutch dancer and singer * Romy Hoffman (born 1980), Australian hip-hop singer known as Macromantics *Romy Pastrana (born 1958), nickname of Romeo Pastrana, Filipino actor, comedian, and politician * Romy Gauchan Thakali, Nepali politician *Romy Tiongco, Filipino former Catholic priest and Christian Aid worker *Romy van Oojen (born 1971), Belgian singer and former member of 2 Unlimited Women * Romy Bühler (b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiona McFarlane
Fiona McFarlane (born 1978) is an Australian author, best known for her book ''The Night Guest'' and her collection of short stories ''The High Places''. She is a recipient of the Voss Literary Prize, the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, the Dylan Thomas Prize, and the Nita Kibble Literary Award. Life and career McFarlane was born in Sydney, Australia in 1978. She studied English at the University of Sydney, the University of Cambridge and the University of Texas at Austin. Her debut novel, ''The Night Guest'', was published in 2013 and is about a retired widow who lives alone and suffers from dementia. It won the Voss Literary Prize and the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing at the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. It was also shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award, The Stella Prize and the Guardian First Book Award. In 2017, McFarlane won the Dylan Thomas Prize for her collection of short stories, ''The H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hannah Kent
Hannah Kent (born 1985) is an Australian writer, known for two novels – ''Burial Rites'' (2013) and ''The Good People'' (2016). Her third novel, ''Devotion'', was published in 2021. Early life and education Kent was born in 1985 grew up in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia. She attended Heathfield High School in Heathfield. She earned a PhD in creative writing at Flinders University, her thesis being the basis of her first novel, ''Burial Rites''. Career In 2010, Kent co-founded the Australian literary journal '' Kill Your Darlings'' with Rebecca Starford. In 2011 Kent won the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for her novel ''Burial Rites.'' ''Burial Rites'' tells the story of Agnes Magnúsdóttir, a servant in northern Iceland who was condemned to death after the murder of two men, one of whom was her employer, and became the last woman put to death in Iceland. Kent was drawn to the idea of writing her story after a visit to the scene of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balli Kaur Jaswal
Balli Kaur Jaswal is a Singaporean novelist, having family roots in Punjab. Her first novel ''Inheritance'' won the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelist Award in 2014, and was adapted for a film presented at the 2017 Singapore International Festival of the Arts. Her second novel ''Sugarbread'' was a finalist for the 2015 inaugural Epigram Books Fiction Prize. Her third novel, '' Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows'' was released in 2017, and garnered her a wider international following, driven in part by being picked as a selection for Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine online book club. Movie rights for ''Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows'' have been sold to Scott Free Productions and Film4. In 2019, the Business Times described Jaswal as "the most internationally well-known Singapore novelist after ''Crazy Rich Asians''’ Kevin Kwan." Personal life Jaswal was born in Singapore; her family moved internationally during her childhood, following her father's caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Carman
Luke Carman is an Australian fiction writer and academic. He is known for his collection of semi-autobiographical stories, which is entitled ''An Elegant Young Man''. The stories are set in Liverpool, Australia, a suburb outside Sydney. He has been called a post-grunge lit writer, a reference to an Australian literary genre from the 2000s which emerged following the 1990s grunge lit genre. Career ''An Elegant Young Man'' His first book, ''An Elegant Young Man'', won the NSW Premier's Literary Award for New Writing. ''An Elegant Young Man'' is a collection of short stories that are linked together, and which are semi-autobiographical. The stories have a protagonist whose name is also Luke and who lives in the author's hometown. Carman stated that he used Liverpool, Australia, as a setting because Australia's "western suburbs have been largely absent from the face of Australian fiction", with an effort to show the "...ugliness of working class suburbia and the pain of being an outs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Pung
Alice Pung (born 1981) is an Australian writer, editor and lawyer. Her books include the memoirs ''Unpolished Gem'' (2006), ''Her Father's Daughter'' (2011) and the novel ''Laurinda'' (2014). Pung is a practising solicitor. She has also worked as an art instructor, independent school teacher at primary and secondary schools and is Artist in Residence at Janet Clarke Hall at the University of Melbourne. Life Pung was born to ethnic Teochew Chinese parents from Cambodia. Fleeing the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge, her parents sought asylum in Australia in 1980. Pung was named Alice after the protagonist of ''Alice in Wonderland'', because her father saw Australia as a wonderland. She was born in the suburb of Footscray in Melbourne and grew up in Braybrook. Pung attended five Melbourne schools, including the Catholic junior girls school Christ the King College in Braybrook (now the junior girls campus of Caroline Chisholm Catholic College), Penleigh and Essendon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Omar Musa
Omar bin Musa (born 9 January 1984) is a Malaysian-Australian author, poet, rapper and visual artist from Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia. He has released three solo hip hop records (including ''Since Ali Died'') and three books of poetry. His debut novel ''Here Come the Dogs'' was published in 2014. ''Here Come the Dogs'' was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and Musa was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Young Novelists of the Year in 2015. Career Musa was runner up in the 2007 Australian Poetry Slam, before winning in 2008 at the Sydney Opera House. He went on to win the Indian Ocean Poetry Slam in 2010. Musa has published three books of poetry: ''The Clocks'', ''Parang'' and ''Millefiori''. Meaning "machete" in Malay, ''Parang'' deals with his Malaysian heritage, migration and loss. He has performed and collaborated with numerous musicians and hip hop artists, including Kae Tempest, Marc E. Bassy, Daniel Merriweather, Kate Miller-Heidke, Lior, Horr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Beneba Clarke
Maxine Beneba Clarke is an Australian writer of Afro-Caribbean descent, whose work includes fiction, non-fiction and poetry. Her collection of short stories ''Foreign Soil'' won the 2013 Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award, the 2015 ABIA for Best Literary Fiction, the 2015 Indie Award for Best Debut Fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2015 Stella Prize. Her memoir ''The Hate Race'' (2016) won the New South Wales Premier's Literary Award, and her poetry collection ''Carrying The World'' won the 2017 Victorian Premier's Prize for Poetry. Her picture book ''The Patchwork Bike'' (2016), illustrated by Melbourne artist Van Thanh Rudd, won the Children's Book of the Year Award for New Illustrator#Crichton Award winners 1988–2018, Crichton Award for Children's Book Illustration. Clarke is a contributor to ''The Saturday Paper'', and is included in the 2019 anthology ''New Daughters of Africa'', edited by Margaret Busby. Biography Maxine Beneba Clarke was born and raised ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |