Fiona Kelly McGregor (born 1965) is an Australian writer,

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ist and art critic whose third novel, '' Indelible Ink'', won the 2011

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award.

Early life and education

McGregor was born in Sydney,

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in 1965.

Career

McGregor has written for a variety of publications including ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. At the beginning of 2021, she began publishing under her full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor. Following the publication of her first two books in 1993 and 1994, she was named one of the inaugural ''Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. As a performance artist McGregor has toured with ''You Have the Body'', a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09, and she screened her 4-hour video ''Vertigo'' at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011. In November 2011, she presented a solo show at Artspace, Sydney, entitled Water Series. Her fourth book, ''Strange Museums'', is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006.

Awards and nominations

* 1992 winner — John Morrison VFAW short story prize — "Dirt" * 1992 shortlisted

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(for an unpublished manuscript) — ''Au Pair'' * 1995 winner Steele Rudd Award — ''Suck My Toes'' * 1997 named one of the Best Young Australian Novelists by ''

'' * 2003 shortlisted

New South Wales 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, t ...

— Christina Stead Prize for Fiction — ''Chemical Palace'' * 2010 shortlisted

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— Fiction — ''Indelible Ink'' * 2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction — ''Indelible Ink'' * 2011 shortlisted

Barbara Jefferis Award The Barbara Jefferis Award is an Australian literary award prize. The award was created in 2007 after being endowed by John Hinde upon his death to commemorate his late wife, author Barbara Jefferis. It is funded by his $1 million bequest. Origi ...

— ''Indelible Ink'' * 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize — ''Indelible Ink'' * 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year — ''Indelible Ink'' * 2019 winner Woollahra Digital Literary Award — non-fiction — ''The Hot Desk'' *2022 shortlisted

Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction The Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction, formerly known as the Nettie Palmer Prize for Non-Fiction, is a prize category in the annual Victorian Premier's Literary Award. As of 2011 it has a remuneration of 25,000. The winner of this category p ...

— ''Buried Not Dead''

Selected works

Novels

* ''Au Pair'' (1993) * ''Chemical Palace'' (2002) * '' Indelible Ink'' (2010) * ''Iris'' (2022)

Short story collection

* ''Suck My Toes'' (1994)

Non-fiction

* ''Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland'' (2008) (travel memoir, performance art critique) * ''A Novel Idea'' (2019) (photoessay) *''Buried Not Dead'' (2021) (essay collection)

References

External links

* 1965 births Living people Australian performance artists Australian women novelists Writers from Sydney 20th-century Australian novelists 20th-century Australian women Grunge lit authors Date of birth missing (living people) {{Australia-writer-stub