Delia Falconer, born in
Sydney
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in 1966, is an Australian novelist who became famous for her bestselling novel, The Service of Clouds. She has been nominated for multiple literary awards in recognition for her work.
Biography
Falconer is an only child of two
graphic designer
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parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the
University of Sydney
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. She completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the
University of Melbourne
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.
She is the author of the novels ''The Service of Clouds'' and ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers'' (which was republished in Australian paperback as ''The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories''). She also wrote ''Sydney'', a personal history of her hometown for the ''Australian Cities'' series. A nonfiction work, ''Signs and Wonders'', was published in 2021.
She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals. Her stories and essays have been widely anthologized, including in ''The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature''.
she was a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the
University of Technology Sydney
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.
She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the
Calibre Prize (2015),
Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys W ...
(2017), and the
NSW Premier's Literary Awards
The New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards, also known as the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, were first awarded in 1979. They are among the richest literary awards in Australia. Notable prizes include the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, th ...
(2017).
Recognition and awards
In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of
the Marten Bequest Scholarship.
Falconer was described by Australian critic
Peter Craven
Peter Theodore Craven
, fansite biography by Jim Blanchard. (accessed 12 July 2006).
, in ''The Best Australian Stories 1999'', as "The young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature of this country".
Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography.
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In 2018, she won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for "The Opposite of Glamour" which was published in the ]Sydney Review of Books
The ''Sydney Review of Books'' is an online literary magazine established in 2013.
According to the journal's editor James Ley it was created to address shortcomings in Australian book reviews.
Awards
In 2019 SRB contributor Fiona Kelly McGr ...
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Selected works
Fiction
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Nonfiction
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As editor
*''The Penguin Book of the Road'', an anthology of stories of the road (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008)
*''The Best Australian Stories 2008'' (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008).
*''The Best Australian Stories 2009'' (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).
References
External links
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1966 births
Living people
Australian women novelists
Writers from New South Wales
20th-century Australian novelists
20th-century Australian women writers
Australian Book Review people