Angela Savage (born 1966) is an Australian author.

Biography

Savage was born in Melbourne and educated at

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, Camberwell. She graduated from the

University of Melbourne The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb nor ...

in 1989 with a BA (Combined Honours) in Criminology and the History and Philosophy of Science. She has worked for the

Australian Red Cross The Australian Red Cross, formally the Australian Red Cross Society, is a humanitarian aid and community services charity in Australia. Tracing its history back to 1923 and being incorporated by royal charter in 1941, the Australian Red Cros ...

in Southeast Asia, 1993–1998; for Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia in the South Pacific, 2000–2002; for the Victorian Council of Social Service, 2002–2007; and for the Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres (Melbourne, Victoria), 2009–2014.

Career

Savage won the

Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award The Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award is a literary award for an unpublished manuscript. It can be entered by any author from the Australian State of Victoria that has not published a project based on fiction. The Award was establis ...

in 2004 for ''Thai Died''. Her first novel, based on this manuscript (''Behind the Night Bazaar,'' Text Publishing, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2007

Ned Kelly Award The Ned Kelly Awards (named for bushranger Ned Kelly) are Australia's leading literary awards for crime writing in both the crime fiction and true crime genres. They were established in 1996 by the Crime Writers Association of Australia to rewar ...

for Best First Fiction. Her second novel (''The Half-Child'', Text Publishing, 2010) was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. In 2011 she won the Scarlet Stiletto prize for Australian women's short crime fiction, awarded by Sisters in Crime Australia, for 'The Teardrop Tattoos'. Her third novel (''The Dying Beach'', Text Publishing, 2013) was shortlisted for the 2014 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction, and the Sisters in Crime Australia 14th Davitt Awards for Australian Crime Writing by Women (Best Adult Novel). She contributed an essay to the collection, ''If I Tell You...I'll Have To Kill You: Australia's leading crime writers reveal their secrets'' (Michael Robotham ed., Allen & Unwin, 2013).

Books

* ''Behind the Night Bazaar,'' Text Publishing, 2006 * ''The Half-Child'', Text Publishing, 2010 * ''The Dying Beach'', Text Publishing, 2013 * ''Mother of Pearl'', Transit Lounge Publishing, 2019

Other

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dedicated his fifth novel, ''Barracuda'' (Allen & Unwin, 2013), to Savage.

Notes

External links

Angela Savage author website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Savage, Angela 1966 births Living people Australian crime writers University of Melbourne alumni Scarlet Stiletto award winners