Jaya Savige

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Jaya Savige
Born1978 (age 45–46)
Sydney, Australia
Occupation(s)Poet, critic, editor, academic
Known forPoetry

Jaya Savige (born 1978) is an Australian poet.

Biography

Born in Sydney in 1978, Savige grew up in Queensland, on Bribie Island and in Brisbane, boarding at St Joseph's College, Nudgee. [1] He attended the University of Queensland, where, after withdrawing from an LLB/BCom, he received a University Medal for his B.A. honours thesis in English on Shakespeare and Keats. In 2006 he completed an MPhil under the supervision of Bronwyn Lea.

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His first collection of poetry, Latecomers (2005), was awarded the NSW Premier's Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize. From 2006 to 2011, he was poetry editor of the Australian Literary Review, the literary supplement to The Australian newspaper. Since 2010, he has been poetry editor for The Australian.

As of 2008, Savige was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, Christ's College. [2] His second collection of poems, Surface to Air, was published in late 2011. Jaya Savige is a lecturer in English and head of creative writing at New College of the Humanities.

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References

  1. ↑ "Late but closing fast", The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 October 2006.
  2. ↑ "Scholarship opens gates to Cambridge", UQ News, 14 July 2008.
  3. ↑ "2021 Queensland Literary Awards shortlists". State Library of Queensland. Retrieved 4 August 2021.
  4. ↑ "NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2021 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 24 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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