Robyn Cadwallader

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Robyn Cadwallader
OccupationNovelist
Notable awards2018 Canberra Critics Circle Awards — Fiction, winner

Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. [1]

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In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress , was published. [2] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. [3]

Cadwallader graduated from Monash University and has a PhD in medieval literature from Flinders University. She developed her 2002 thesis, The virgin, the dragon and the theorist : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete into her first book, Three Methods for Reading the Thirteenth-century Seinte Marherete, published in 2008. [4] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university. [5]

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children. [5]

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Awards and recognition

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References

  1. ↑ "Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader". Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  2. ↑ "The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  3. ↑ "Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader". Festival Muse. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  4. ↑ Cadwallader, Robyn. "The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete". NLA Trove Books. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  5. 1 2 Pryor, Sally (14 February 2015). "Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  6. ↑ "I Painted Unafraid by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  7. ↑ "We Are Better Than This by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  8. ↑ "Book of Colours by Robyn Cadwallader". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  9. 1 2 "Austlit — Robyn Cadwallader – Awards". Austlit. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
  10. ↑ "Short List 2019". the voss literary prize. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  11. ↑ "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
  12. ↑ ""The 2023 ARA Historical Novel Prize Adult Category Longlist"". Historical Novel Society Australasia. Retrieved 11 December 2024.
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