Patricia Shaw (novelist)

Patricia Shaw (novelist)

Patricia Shaw (born 1929 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian novelist and non-fiction writer. She currently lives in Gold Coast, Queensland, in north east Australia.

Biography

Patricia Shaw read History at university and consequently assisted the Governor of Queensland as a textwriter. From 1983, she has led the Oral History Department of the Library of Parliament and wrote two works of non-fiction regarding Australia's era of settlement.

She only decided to apply herself to writing fiction at age 52. Among her countless novels, most of which centre on the settlement of the Australian hinterland and which gave her the sobriquet of "Australia's Chronicler", "River of the Sun" (1991) and "The Opal Seekers" (1996) are the most widely known.

Patricia Shaw is also actively involved in the protection of animals and is especially concerned with Australia's endemic birdlife.

Awards

"Corine International Book Award 2004" (readers' choice award) for "The Five Winds".

Bibliography

Non-Fiction

* "Brother Digger" (1984)
* "Pioneers of a Trackless Land"

Fiction

*"Valley of Lagoons" (1989)
*"River of the Sun" (1991)
*"The Feather and the Stone" (1992)
*"Where the Willows Weep" (1993)
*"Cry of the Rainbird" (1994)
*"Fire Fortune" (1995)
*"The Opal Seekers" (1996)
*"Glittering Fields" (1997)
*"A Cross of Stars" (1998)
*"Orchid Bay" (1999)
*"Waiting for the Thunder" (2000)
*"On Emerald Downs" (2002)
*"The Five Winds" (2003)
*"Storm Bay" (2005)
*"Mango Hill" (2007, the sequel to "Valley of Lagoons")

External links

References

*
* [http://www.literaturschock.de/biografien/000501 Literaturschock.de short biography in German]
* [http://www.corine.de/deutsch/chronik/preistraeger2004/leserpreis.html Corine.de regarding the Readers' Choice Award (in German)]


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