Honey Brown | |
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Occupation | Writer |
Language | English |
Nationality | Australian |
Years active | 2008–present |
Notable works | Red Queen, Dark Horse |
Notable awards | Aurealis Award, Davitt Award |
Honey Brown is an Australian novelist. [1]
Honey Brown grew up in Campbell Town, Tasmania. [2]
She attended Campbell Town High School and Launceston College, Tasmania before moving to Victoria. [2]
Her first novel, Red Queen, was published by Penguin in 2008 and won the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Novel in 2009. With her subsequent novels she was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award in 2011 for The Good Daughter and won the Davitt Award in 2014 for Dark Horse.
In 2009 she was involved in a farming accident which left her partially paralysed and unable to walk. [2]
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