Julienne van Loon

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Julienne van Loon (born 1970) is an Australian author and academic. [1] [2]

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In 2004, Julienne won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award for her first book, Road Story. [3]

Van Loon lived in Perth, where she was a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication and Cultural Studies at Curtin University from 1997 to 2015. [4] In September 2015 she was appointed Vice Chancellor's Principal Research Fellow at RMIT University. She was director of the Australian Society of Authors from 2015 to 2017. [5]

Her first non-fiction book, The Thinking Woman, [6] was developed from conversations she had with seven feminist thinkers (Laura Kipnis, Siri Hustvedt, Nancy Holmstrom, Helen Caldicott, Julia Kristeva, Marina Warner and Rosi Braidotti) and covers six themes (love, work, play, fear, wonder and friendship). [7]

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References

  1. "Fremantle Press : Authors : Julienne van Loon". www.fremantlepress.com.au. Archived from the original on 9 April 2013.
  2. "Allen & Unwin - Author Display". Allenandunwin.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  3. "Allen & Unwin - Author Display". Allenandunwin.com. Archived from the original on 4 May 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  4. "Dr Julienne van Loon". Find.curtin.edu.au. 15 September 2009. Archived from the original on 27 November 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  5. "Dr Julienne Van Loon - RMIT University". www.rmit.edu.au. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
  6. van Loon, Julienne, 1970- (2019). The thinking woman. [S.l.]: Newsouth Books. ISBN   978-1742236308. OCLC   1077788804.
  7. Case, Jo (5 April 2019). "The Thinking Woman review: Julienne van Loon on the forces that shape us". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 5 April 2019.