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Meaghan Delahunt Born 1961
Melbourne, AustraliaResidence East Coast of Scotland Meaghan Delahunt (born 1961) is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland.[1] In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing there.
In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia.[2]
Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House (Bloomsbury, 2001), won a regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in 2002, the Saltire Award for First Novel, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the year award, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[3] Her second novel, The Red Book (Granta, 2008), was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2008.[4]
Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.[5]
Bibliography
- In the Blue House, (Bloomsbury, 2002) ISBN 0747557659 review Socialist Worker review Socialist Action
Notes
- ^ "Meaghan Delahunt". Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. http://www.bloomsbury.com/ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=9780747557654. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval". ABC Radio National, The Book Show. http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2006/1601285.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- ^ "2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards". NSW Minister for the Arts. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070207205851/http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/Releases/2002+NSW+Premier's+Literary+Awards.doc. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
- ^ "SCOTTISH LITERARY AWARDS". Saltire Society. http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
- ^ "Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt". Living. Scotsman.com. http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=277122003. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
External links
- Staff Profile, University of St Andrews
- Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval ABC Radio National, The Book Show 27 March 2006
- Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt, 9 March 2003 Living. Scotsman.com accessed 16 July 2007
Categories:- Living people
- 1961 births
- Australian novelists
- Academics of the University of St Andrews
- Australian women writers
- Women novelists
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