Claire Zorn

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Claire Zorn (born in Penrith, New South Wales [1] ) is an Australian writer of young adult fiction. She was awarded the CBCA Children's Book of the Year Award: Older Readers in 2015 and 2017.

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Personal life

Zorn grew up in the Blue Mountains [1] and attended St Columba's Catholic College. [2] She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a post graduate diploma in writing [3] from University of Technology Sydney. [4] As a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, her work has been published in literary journals including Wet Ink and the Overland Literary Journal , [5] and she blogs. [6] She is a Christian and has spoken publicly about how her faith influences her writing. She says she tries to view her characters with the same compassion and judgement as Christ views people. [7]

Published works and awards

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References

  1. 1 2 "Claire Zorn - Booked Out". Booked Out. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  2. ↑ Stanisic, Annabella Noussis (2016). "Year 10 Author Visit" (PDF). The Dove. St Columba's Catholic College. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2017. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "The Sky So Heavy Teacher's notes". University of Queensland Press. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Arts, Department of Communications and the (5 August 2016). "The Protected by Claire Zorn". www.arts.gov.au. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  5. ↑ "Author biography". Overland. 2011.
  6. ↑ "Claire Zorn". Claire Zorn. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  7. ↑ "Sydney Writers' Festival: What's God Got to do with It?". 10 May 2019.
  8. ↑ "UQP - The Sky So Heavy". www.uqp.uq.edu.au. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  9. ↑ "The Sky so heavy Teacher's notes" (PDF). University of Queensland Press.
  10. ↑ "One would think the deep. Teacher's notes" (PDF). University of Queensland Press.
  11. ↑ Convery, Stephanie; Harmon, Steph (17 August 2017). "Claire Zorn's grief-and-surfing story wins children's book of the year award". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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