- Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born
Australia nnovelist and formerpark ranger .Biography
Tiffany was born in
West Yorkshire and migrated toAustralia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up inPerth, 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 onagriculture . Moving again, toMelbourne 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 atRMIT University and is working towards her doctorate atLatrobe 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Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript::*2005 won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction::*2006 shortlisted for theGuardian First Book Award cite web |title= First and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 theMiles Franklin Award ::*2007 winner of the Dobbie Encouragement Award::*2006 shortlisted for theVictorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction cite 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 theOrange Prize for Fiction cite 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
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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)Persondata
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