Steven Carroll
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Steven Carroll is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at La Trobe University
. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.
Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner and their son.
La Trobe University
La Trobe University is a multi-campus university in Victoria, Australia. It was established in 1964 by an Act of Parliament to become the third oldest university in the state of Victoria. The main campus of La Trobe is located in the Melbourne suburb of Bundoora; two other major campuses are...
. He has taught English at secondary school level, and drama at RMIT. He has been Drama Critic for The Sunday Age newspaper in Melbourne.
Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner and their son.
Awards
Quarterback at Chowan University in North Carolina| Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Writers' Prize Commonwealth Writers is an initiative by the Commonwealth Foundation to unearth, develop and promote the best new fiction from across the Commonwealth. It's flagship are two literary awards and a website... |
The Time We Have Taken, winner 2008, South-East Asia and South Pacific region |
| Miles Franklin Award Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize for the best Australian ‘published novel or play portraying Australian life in any of its phases’. The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin , who is best known for writing the Australian classic My Brilliant Career ... |
The Art of the Engine Driver, shortlisted 2002 |
| The Gift of Speed, shortlisted 2005 | |
| The Time We Have Taken, winner 2008 | |
| Prix Femina Prix Femina The Prix Femina is a French literary prize created in 1904 by 22 writers for the magazine La Vie heureuse . The prize is decided each year by an exclusively female jury, although the authors of the winning works do not have to be women... (France) Best Foreign Novel |
The Art of the Engine Driver, shortlisted 2005 |
Novels
- Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992)
- Momoko (1994), aka The Lovers' Room
- The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
- The Art of the Engine DriverThe Art of the Engine DriverThe Art of the Engine Driver is a 2001 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the first in a sequence of novels, followed by The Gift of Speed and The Time We Have Taken.-Awards:...
(2001) - The Gift of SpeedThe Gift of SpeedThe Gift of Speed is a 2004 novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the second in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and followed by The Time We Have Taken.-Reviews:**...
(2004) - The Time We Have TakenThe Time We Have TakenThe Time We Have Taken is a Miles Franklin Award winning novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It is the third in a sequence of novels, following The Art of the Engine Driver and The Gift of Speed, which follow the development of an outer Melbourne suburb from the 1950s to the 1970s...
(2007) - Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride]
Interviews
- Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007 http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,21344199-5006348,00.html
- Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2280799.htm
- Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008 http://sleeperspods.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=360883