Danielle Clode

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Danielle Clode (born 1968) is an Australian author of literary nonfiction, history and children's books. [1] [2] She is an associate professor of creative writing at Flinders University.

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Clode was born in Adelaide in 1968 and spent her early years in Port Lincoln, South Australia. She later lived on a boat with her parents travelling around Australia and completing her schooling by correspondence. [3]

Clode received her B.A. at the University of Adelaide in 1989 and her D.Phil. in zoology at the University of Oxford in 1993. [4]

Career

Clode worked at Melbourne University and the Victorian Writers Centre. [4] In 2011, she moved to Flinders University. [4]

She has written reviews for Australian Book Review . [5]

Awards and honors

Clode was a Rhodes Scholar in 1990. [4] She has received the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Nonfiction in 2007 [1] and a Whitley Award for Best Popular Zoology book in 2016. [4]

Clode's 2018 biography of Australian naturalist Edith Coleman, The Wasp and the Orchid, was shortlisted for the 2019 National Biography Award. [6] In Search of the Woman Who Sailed the World was shortlisted for the 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Nonfiction Award. [7]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Danielle Clode". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Danielle Clode on a rare partnership between man and killer whale, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 15 July 2016, retrieved 20 March 2017
  3. ↑ "Danielle Clode - Booked Out Speakers Agency". Booked Out Speakers Agency. Retrieved 20 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Danielle Clode". Flinders University . Retrieved 24 July 2023.
  5. ↑ "Danielle Clode". Australian Book Review.
  6. ↑ "The Wasp And The Orchid: The Remarkable Life of Australian Naturalist Edith Coleman by Danielle Clode". State Library of NSW. 18 June 2019. Retrieved 26 June 2019.
  7. ↑ "2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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