Carrie Tiffany

Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.

Biography

Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In her early twenties she worked as a park ranger in Central Australia.

In 1988 they moved to Sydney where she began work as a writer, focusing mainly on agriculture. Moving again, to Melbourne in 2000, Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a creative writing course. She has two children, Tess Smurthwaite and Guy Tiffany. She completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at RMIT University and is working towards her doctorate at Latrobe University.cite web |title= Carrie Tiffany, Author/Agriculturalist Journalist |publisher= Booked Out Agency |url= http://www.bookedout.com.au/authors/Carrie_Tiffany/index.html |accessdate= 2007-08-01]

Tiffany's debut novel, "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living", was a remarkable success on its release in 2005, winning several awards and shortlisted for some major awards, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Orange Prize.

Awards and nominations

*"Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living"::*2003 won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript::*2005 won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction::*2006 shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Awardcite web |title= First and foremost: Guardian First Book Award 2006 |publisher= Guardian News and Media Limited |url= http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2006/0,,1855769,00.html |accessdate= 2007-08-01] ::*2006 shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award::*2007 winner of the Dobbie Encouragement Award::*2006 shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fictioncite web |title= The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006 |publisher= State Library of Australia |url= http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/shortlist2006.html |accessdate= 2007-08-01 ] ::*2007 shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fictioncite web |title= Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 01 August 2007 |publisher= Orange Prize |url= http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/shortlist.php4?bookid=198 |accessdate= 2007-08-01]

Bibliography

* "Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living" (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2005) ISBN: 0330421913

Notes

References

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/fba2006/0,,1855769,00.html Guardian First Book Award 2006] Guardian News and Media Limited (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
* [http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/shortlist.php4?bookid=198 Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 01 August 2007] (retrieved 1 August 2007)
* [http://www.bookedout.com.au/authors/Carrie_Tiffany/index.html Carrie Tiffany, Author/Agriculturalist Journalist] Booked Out Agency (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
* [http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/programs/literary/pla/vpprize/shortlist2006.html The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006] State Library of Victoria (Retrieved 1 August 2007)

External links

* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/tiffanys-natural-order/2005/08/06/1123125938051.html Interview with Tiffany]
* [http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/opf/shortlist_review.php4?bookid=198&authorid=301 "Rules for Scientific Living" reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar] Orange Prize (Retrieved 1 August 2007)

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