''Double-Wolf'' is a 1991 novel by

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Plot summary

The novel is a fictionalised account of the life of Wolf-Man,

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's most famous patient, counter-pointed with an account of Artie Catacomb, a con-man and psychoanalyst living in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

Reviews

* ''The Canberra Times'' - Reviewer Peter Fuller considered the novel to be the best imaginative writing of the year

Awards and nominations

* 1991 winner

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Award — Imaginative Writing Prize * 1992 winner

Victorian Premier's Literary Awards The Victorian Premier's Literary Awards were created by the Victorian Government with the aim of raising the profile of contemporary creative writing and Australia's publishing industry. As of 2013, it is reportedly Australia's richest literary p ...

— The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction * 1992 winner Diabetes Australia Prize for Innovative Writing and the Sheaffer Pen Prize * 1992 shortlisted

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

References

{{reflist 1991 Australian novels