Delia Falconer

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Delia Falconer
BornDelia Falconer
1966 (age 5758)
Sydney, Australia
OccupationNovelist
Alma mater
Genre
Notable awards
Website
deliafalconer.com.au

Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist best known for her novel The Service of Clouds . Her works have been nominated for several literary awards. [1]

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Biography

Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. [2]

She is the author of the novels The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (which was republished in Australian paperback as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories). She also wrote Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, for the Australian Cities series. [3] [4]

As of 2019 she was a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney. [5] She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the Calibre Prize (2015), the Stella Prize (2017), and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017). [5]

Recognition and awards

In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship. [6]

Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography. [4] [7]

In 2018, she won the Pascall Prize for "The Opposite of Glamour," which was published in the Sydney Review of Books. [8]

Selected works

Fiction

Nonfiction

As editor

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  3. "Reintroducing the City Series in Paperback! :: NewSouth Publishing". Archived from the original on 10 April 2021. Retrieved 28 June 2021.
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  6. "Recipients Of Our Co-investment Opportunities". Australia Council for the Arts . 18 October 2021. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
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