- Sophie Cunningham
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name = Sophie Cunningham
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1963|12|26
birthplace = Melbourne
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occupation =Writer ,Editor
nationality =Australian
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influenced =Sophie Cunningham is a
Melbourne -based writer and editor. She was publisher at McPhee Gribble/Penguin for two years and Trade Publisher atAllen & Unwin for ten, where she was known for innovative fiction and non-fiction.In 2004, her own first novel,
Geography , was published. In 2005 she was an Asialink resident in Sri Lanka, which provided research material for her novelBird . [http://www.asialink.unimelb.edu.au/our_work/arts/literature/residencies/past/sri_lanka/sophie_cunningham] , which follows the life of a singer-actress who became a Buddhist nun. She's working on her third novel, This Devastating Fever, based on Leonard Woolf's time in Ceylon] . [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/talk-of-the-table/2008/08/21/1219262404303.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2] . She has also written several pieces of journalism and travel writing.In 2008 she became the editor of
Meanjin and aims to make the literary magazine 'lighter, more fun, but I don't mean lightweight." [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/talk-of-the-table/2008/08/21/1219262404303.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2] . She also aims to establish a younger audience for the magazine.Novels
*"Geography" (Text, 2004) 9781920885038
*"Bird" (Text, 2008) 9781921351525References
External links
* [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/30/1083224574004.html Stripped Bare]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2159250.htm Meanjin's new editor, Sophie Cunningham]
* [http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,23992785-5003424,00.html Sophie Cunningham takes a flight of fancy with Bird]
* [http://www.sophiecunningham.com Sophie Cunningham's blog]
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