Lucy Treloar is an Australian novelist. Her first novel, ''Salt Creek'', won the 2016
Dobbie Literary Award and was shortlisted for the 2016
Miles Franklin Award and the 2016
. Her second novel, ''Wolfe Island'', won the 2020
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 ...
and was shortlisted for both the
Christina Stead Prize for Fiction and the
Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction in 2020.
Treloar was born in Malaysia, grew up in England and Sweden, before moving to
Melbourne
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,
Victoria
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* Victoria (Australia), a state of the Commonwealth of Australia
* Victoria, British Columbia, provincial capital of British Columbia, Canada
* Victoria (mythology), Roman goddess of Victory
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. She has a BA (Hons) in fine arts from the
University of Melbourne
The University of Melbourne is a public research university located in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1853, it is Australia's second oldest university and the oldest in Victoria. Its main campus is located in Parkville, an inner suburb no ...
and a diploma of professional writing and editing from
RMIT University.
In 2014 she won the Pacific regional prize in the
Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story "The Dog and the Sea".
Works
Books
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Essay
* "Writing the Apocalypse", in ''Meanjin,'' vol. 79, no. 2, June 2020, pages 26–36
Short stories
* "The Dog and the Sea"
* "In the Park"
* "Wrecking Ball"
* "Natural Selection"
References
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Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century Australian novelists
Australian women novelists