Fotini Epanomitis (born 23 July 1969 in

Perth, Western Australia Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. It is the fourth most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of 2.1 million (80% of the state) living in Greater Perth in 2020. Perth is ...

) is an Australian

novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. Some novelists are professional novelists, thus make a living writing novels and other fiction, while others aspire to ...

. Her first novel, ''The Mule's Foal'', won the 1994

Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Foundation presented a number of prizes between 1987 and 2011. The main award was called the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and was composed of two prizes: the Best Book Prize (overall and regional) was awarded from 1987 to 2011; the Best ...

, best first book, South East Asia and South Pacific, and the 1992 Australian Vogel Award.

Early years

Epanomitis was born in 1969. Her parents migrated to Perth from

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

in northern Greece the same year. She grew up in Perth, except for one year on her grandparents' farm in Greece when she was twelve. She graduated from

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

with a BA (Hons), and an MA in Literature. She went on to teach literature at various Australian universities.

Works

*''The mule's foal'', Allen & Unwin, 1993, **''Ta votania tēs Mirelas'', Nea Synora, 1995, **''Mulino žrebe'', Translator Nina Kokelj, Goga, 2001, *

References

1969 births 20th-century Australian novelists Australian people of Greek descent Australian women novelists Curtin University alumni Writers from Perth, Western Australia Living people 20th-century Australian women writers {{Australia-writer-stub