Charlotte Wood

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Charlotte Wood

AM
BornCharlotte Ann Wood
1965 (age 59–60)
Cooma, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation Novelist
Language English
Genre Fiction
Notable works The Natural Way of Things

Charlotte Wood AM (born 1965) is an Australian novelist. [1] The Australian newspaper described Wood as "one of our [Australia's] most original and provocative writers". [2]

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Early life and education

Wood was born in Cooma, New South Wales. [1] She has a PhD from the University of New South Wales; previous degrees are a Master of Creative Arts from UTS and a BA from Charles Sturt University. [1]

Career

She is the author of seven novels – Pieces of a Girl (1999), The Submerged Cathedral (2004), The Children (2007), Animal People (2011), The Natural Way of Things (2015), The Weekend (2019), and Stone Yard Devotional (2023). She has also written a book about creativity, The Luminous Solution (2021), a collection of interviews with Australian writers, The Writer's Room (2016), and a collection of personal reflections on cooking, Love & Hunger (2012). She was also editor of an anthology of writing about siblings, Brothers & Sisters (2009).

Her books have been critically well received and frequently mentioned in prize lists. In 2016 The Natural Way of Things won the Stella Prize, the Indie Book Awards Novel of the Year and Book of the Year, and was shortlisted for various other prizes including the Miles Franklin and Barbara Jefferis. [3] Animal People was shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards in 2013 and longlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award. She has a background in journalism and has also taught writing at a variety of levels. [4]

In 2014, she was appointed Chair of Arts Practice, Literature, at the Australia Council for the Arts, a three-year appointment. [5]

She currently lives in Sydney. [6]

In May 2016, it was announced that Wood won the Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre. [7] As an Honorary Associate, Wood has been working with health specialists to offer literary views on the complex topic of ageing.

In 2024, her novel Stone Yard Devotional was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. [8]

Awards and honours

Bibliography

Fiction

Non-fiction

As Editor

Interviews

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  2. ↑ "Charlotte Wood's Natural Order of Things a Gripping Novel". The Australian.
  3. ↑ "Barbara Jefferis Award". Australian Society of Authors. Archived from the original on 7 July 2019. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  4. ↑ OzArts – Charlotte Wood Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ↑ Wyndham, Susan (16 December 2014). "Government give and take to the struggling book industry". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 12 September 2024.
  6. ↑ 2005 Miles Franklin Award Author profiles Archived 13 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  7. 1 2 "Author Charlotte Wood announced as Charles Perkins Centre's Writer in Residence". The University of Sydney. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  8. ↑ Creamer, Ella (16 September 2024). "Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian.
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  10. ↑ "Nita B Kibble Literary Awards for Women Writers – Awards and Recipients". www.perpetual.com.au. Perpetual Limited. Archived from the original on 14 November 2022. Retrieved 8 December 2021. Kibble winners short list - Archived
  11. ↑ Christina Stead Prize Archived 24 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine NSW Premier's Awards
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  13. ↑ Burke, Kelly (7 October 2021). "10 years of the Stella: how Australia's women's writing prize changed a nation's literature". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077. Archived from the original on 1 September 2022. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  14. ↑ "Dr Charlotte Ann Wood". honours.pmc.gov.au. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
  15. ↑ Patten, Sally (22 October 2019). "AFR's 11 most influential women revealed". Australian Financial Review. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
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  22. ↑ Creamer, Ella (16 September 2024). "Percival Everett and Rachel Kushner make the 2024 Booker prize shortlist". The Guardian.
  23. ↑ "Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 15 August 2024. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
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