Suzanne Falkiner
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Suzanne Falkiner is an Australian writer. Born in Sydney, she grew up in western New South Wales and was educated at the University of New South Wales
, Columbia University
and University of Technology, Sydney
. After travelling extensively and working in various publishing and editing positions, she currently lives in Sydney and works as a full time writer.
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
, Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
and University of Technology, Sydney
University of Technology, Sydney
The University of Technology Sydney is a university in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. The university was founded in its current form in 1981, although its origins trace back to the 1870s. UTS is notable for its central location as the only university with its main campuses within the Sydney CBD...
. After travelling extensively and working in various publishing and editing positions, she currently lives in Sydney and works as a full time writer.
Awards and nominations
- 1980: Runner up in the Australian Vogel award
- 1981: Runner up in the Australian Vogel award for Rain in the Distance
- 1996: Shortlisted for the Nita B. Kibble Award in 1996 for Ethel: A Love Story
- 2001: Shortlisted (with Alan Oldfield) for the Queensland Premier's Literary AwardsQueensland Premier's Literary AwardsThe Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were inaugurated in 1999 and have grown to become a leading literary awards program within Australia, with $225,000 in prizemoney over 14 categories. One of Australia's richest prizes, top categories offer up to $25,000 for 1st prize.-Fiction Book...
(History) for Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson - 2002: Shortlisted (with Alan Oldfield) for the NSW Premier's History Awards for Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson
Fiction
- Rain in the Distance (1986) novel
- After the Great Novelist (1989) travel stories
Non-fiction
- Australian Aborigines: Shadows in a Landscape 1979 (with photographs by Laurence Le Guay): an essay on Aboriginal Australia
- Australians Today 1985 (with photographs by Lorrie Graham): a portrait of multicultural Australia
- Eugenia: A Man (1988) biography: the story of Eugenia FalleniEugenia FalleniEugenia Falleni was a female-to-male transsexual and convicted murderer.-Early life:...
, and the ‘Man-Woman Case’, about a transsexual accused of murder in 1920s Sydney
- The Writer's Landscape: Wilderness and Settlement (1992) an essay in two volumes on the role of landscape in defining Australian literature. Deals with the writings of early settlers, explorers and social commentators through to later writers and poets including Henry LawsonHenry LawsonHenry Lawson was an Australian writer and poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest writer"...
, Eve LangleyEve LangleyEve Langley , born Ethel Jane Langley, was an Australian novelist and poet. Her novels belong to a tradition of Australian women's writing that explores the conflict between being an artist and being a woman.-Life:...
, Douglas Stewart, Thea AstleyThea AstleyThea Astley was an Australian novelist and short story writer. She was a prolific writer who was published for over 40 years from 1958. At the time of her death, she had won more Miles Franklin Awards, Australia's major literary award, than any other writer...
, Patrick WhitePatrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White , an Australian author, is widely regarded as an important English-language novelist of the 20th century. From 1935 until his death, he published 12 novels, two short-story collections and eight plays.White's fiction employs humour, florid prose, shifting narrative...
, Randolph StowRandolph StowJulian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...
, Elizabeth JolleyElizabeth JolleyMonica Elizabeth Jolley AO was an English-born writer who settled in Western Australia in the late 1950s. She was 53 when her first book was published, and she went on to publish fifteen novels , four short story collections and three non-fiction books, publishing well into her 70s and achieving...
, Robin Davison
- Ethel: A Love Story (1996) biography: a portrait of early 20th century Australian society
- Lizard Island: The Journey of Mary Watson (2001) biography, accompanied by a monograph on the artist Alan Oldfield and his narrative series of paintings 'The story of Mrs Watson 1881': explores the death of Mary Watson, her Chinese servant and her four month old baby son after their escape from Lizard Island in Far North Queensland, and the previously-unrecorded massacre of Aborigines that followed
- Joan in India (2008) biography: the story of Joan Falkiner, an Australian woman who married the Muslim ruler H.H. Taley Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of PalanpurPalanpurPalanpur is a city and a municipality of Banaskantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Palanpur is the largest city and the administrative headquarters of the district....
, in 1939, and lived with him in Gujarat throughout the period leading to Indian Independence
- The Imago: E. L. Grant Watson & Australia (2011) biography, describes the Australian journeys of English biologist and writer Elliot Lovegood Grant Watson, and his subsequent works
As editor
- Room to Move: The Redress Press Book of Australian Short Stories (1985, USA 1986)
External links
- Interview with Suzanne Falkiner on Joan in India, presenter Phillip Adams Late Night LiveLate Night LiveLate Night Live is an Australian radio program broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio National as well as on Radio Australia shortwave radio and podcast and streamed over the World Wide Web....
, ABC Radio National, 25/11/09 - Inland - Suzanne Falkiner essay on Tim Storrier, 1996
- Dark Star Safari; Swahili for the Broken-Hearted; Sahara, By Suzanne Falkiner, December 28, 2002