Fiona McGregor

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Fiona Kelly McGregor
Born Sydney, New South Wales
OccupationWriter and performance artist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAustralian
Years active1992–
Notable works Indelible Ink (2010)
Notable awardsAge Book of the Year, Steele Rudd Award, Woollahra Digital Award (non-fiction).

Fiona Kelly McGregor is an Australian writer, performance artist and art critic whose third novel, Indelible Ink , won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year award.

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Early life and education

McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales. [1]

Career

McGregor has written for a variety of publications including The Sydney Morning Herald , HEAT , Sydney Review of Books , Meanjin , Times Literary Supplement , Art Monthly , The Monthly , The Saturday Paper and RealTime . In 2020 she began publishing under her full name, Fiona Kelly McGregor. Following the publication of her first two books in 1993 and 1994, McGregor was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997. [2] Since then, McGregor has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards for her short stories, novels and essays.

As a performance artist McGregor toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09, [3] and she screened her 4-hour video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011. [4] In November 2011, she presented a solo show at Artspace, Sydney, entitled Water Series. Her fourth book, Strange Museums, is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006.

Awards and nominations

Selected works

Novels

Short story collection

Non-fiction

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