Meaghan Delahunt (born 1961) is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland. In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at

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, and she now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling. In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia. Delahunt's first novel, ''In the Blue House'' (Bloomsbury, 2001), won a regional

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for Best First Book in 2002, the Saltire Award for First Novel, a

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Book of the year award, was longlisted for the

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and shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the

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. Her second novel, ''The Red Book'' (Granta, 2008), was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2008. Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.

Bibliography

* ''In the Blue House'', (Bloomsbury, 2002) review Socialist Worker
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/small> *''The Red Book'' (Granta, 2008) *''To the Island'' (Granta, 2011) *''Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories'' (Word Power Women, 2015) *''The Night-Side of the Country'' (UWA Publishing, 2020)

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External links

Staff Profile, University of St Andrews

ABC Radio National, The Book Show 27 March 2006
Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt, 9 March 2003
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