John Clanchy (born 1 August 1943) 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 ...

and

short story A short story is a piece of prose fiction that typically can be read in one sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the oldest ...

writer.

Biography

John Clanchy was born in

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in 1943 but has lived in

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since 1975. Prior to taking up fiction writing full-time, he worked for more than two decades at the Australian National University as head of an academic advisory center for students and, later, as Foundation Director of the Graduate Teaching Program in the university’s Graduate School. Together with his colleague and partner, Brigid Ballard, he is the author of many articles and textbooks on academic writing, study, teaching and research, and cross-cultural education.

Career

John Clanchy has published seven novels and five collections of stories and novellas. He is best known for his long stories which have won a large number of regional, state and international awards. He has been the recipient of an Australia Council Writing Fellowship, a panelist at all of the major State Literary Festivals, a teacher of creative writing at a number of centers and retreats here and in France, and has published many uncollected stories in magazines and newspapers. He has also published a number of poems and had two award-winning plays performed under various pseudonyms. One collection of his stories, ''Vincenzo’s Garden'', won a total of seven awards, including the ACT Book of the Year and the Steele Rudd Award (Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Short Fiction), both in 2006. His novel ''The Hard Word'' was also awarded the ACT Book of the Year (2003), and his latest novel ''In Whom We Trust'' was shortlisted for the same prize (2021). He has written two crime novels, ''If God Sleeps'' and ''And Hope to Die'' (co-authored with Mark Henshaw under the pseudonym J.M. Calder), which have appeared with Penguin Viking in Australia, Gallimard in France and Rowohlt in Germany – the last becoming a German bestseller and Book Club edition. Clanchy is "widely acknowledged as a master of the short literary form."

Bibliography

Novels

* ''Breaking Glass'' (University of Queensland Press, 1992) *''The Hard Word'' (University of Queensland Press, 2002) *''Lessons from the Heart'' (University of Queensland Press, 2003) *''SISTERS'' (La Muse Books (France), e-kindle (Amazon.com), 2018. Print version, La Muse Books (limited edition) 2022) *''In Whom We Trust'' (Finlay Lloyd, 2019)

As J.M. Calder

* ''If God Sleeps'' (Penguin/ Penguin/Gallimard/Rowohlt, 1997) * ''And Hope to Die'' (Penguin/Gallimard/Rowohlt, 2007)

Short stories

* ''Lie of the Land'' (Pascoe Publishing, 1985) *''Homecoming'' (University of Queensland Press, 1989) *''Vincenzo’s Garden'' (University of Queensland Press, 2005) *''Her Father’s Daughter'' (University of Queensland Press, 2008) *''Six'' (Finlay Lloyd, 2014)

Awards

Australian *2003 ACT Book of the Year, ''The Hard Word'' * 2006

Queensland Premier's Literary Awards The Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were an Australian suite of literary awards inaugurated in 1999 and disestablished in 2012. It was one of the most generous suites of literary awards within Australia, with $225,000 in prize money across ...

, Australian Short Story Collection – Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Award, ''Vincenzo's Garden'' * 2006 ACT Book of the Year, ''Vincenzo's Garden'' International * The Commonwealth Literature and language Studies Prize (Europe) * The Antipodes Prize for Short Fiction (US) * The PEN Air-NZ Prize

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Clanchy, John Living people Australian male novelists Australian crime fiction writers 1943 births