Anwen Crawford

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Anwen Crawford
NationalityAustralian
Notable works No Document
Notable awards Pascall Prize

Anwen Crawford is an Australian writer and music critic. She is the former music critic for The Monthly and has authored two non-fiction books: No Document (2021) and Live Through This (2015). She won the Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism in 2021, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize.

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Career

Anwen Crawford was the music critic for The Monthly between 2013 and 2021. [1] [2] Her first book, Live Through This, was released by Bloomsbury Publishing in 2015. In the book Crawford analyses the music of Courtney Love. [3] Crawford received a New South Wales Writers' Fellowship in 2016 and was the new writer in residence at the University of Technology Sydney between 2017 and 2018. [2] [4] Her second book, No Document, is a work of creative nonfiction about the death of a friend from cystic fibrosis. It was published by Giramondo Publishing in 2021 and was shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Prize. [5] [6] [7] That year, Crawford also won the Pascall Prize for her music criticism. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Home". Anwen Crawford. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Anwen Crawford on making a career of criticism". Writing NSW. 8 June 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  3. 1 2 Capp, Fiona (13 February 2015). "In Short: Non-fiction by Srdja Popovic, Anwen Crawford, Will Boast, Owen Beattie, John Geiger". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  4. ↑ "Crawford named University of Technology Sydney's New Writer in Residence for 2017-18". Books+Publishing. 29 August 2017. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  5. 1 2 Capp, Fiona (30 April 2021). "Non-fiction: Anwen Crawford's No Document and three other titles". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  6. ↑ "Anwen Crawford – No Document". Stella. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  7. ↑ ""The Cut Is Tangible": A Conversation with Anwen Crawford". Los Angeles Review of Books. 3 August 2022. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  8. ↑ "Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism Winners". The Walkley Foundation. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  9. ↑ Tierney, James (31 January 2015). "Learned critics focus on The Grey Album and Hole's Live Through This". The Australian. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  10. ↑ Sasnaitis, Francesca (23 March 2021). "Francesca Sasnaitis reviews 'No Document' by Anwen Crawford". Australian Book Review. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  11. ↑ Beeston, Alix (10 May 2021). "A History of Shapes". Sydney Review of Books. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
  12. ↑ Fry, Declan (3 April 2021). "No Document". The Saturday Paper. Retrieved 31 December 2025.
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