Robyn Cadwallader

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Robyn Cadwallader is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and poetry. In 2015 her debut historical fiction novel, The Anchoress , was published. [1] For this novel, she was shortlisted for the 2015 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature. [2]

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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. [3] In the past, she taught creative writing and medieval literature at the same university. [4]

Cadwallader resides near Canberra, with her husband, Alan Cadwallader, an academic at the Australian Catholic University, and four children. [4]

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References

  1. "Robyn Cadwallader". The Edinburgh International Book Festival. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  2. "Question Time - Robyn Cadwallader". Festival Muse. Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  3. Cadwallader, Robyn. "The virgin, the dragon and the theorist [manuscript] : readings in the thirteenth-century, Seinte Marherete". NLA Trove Books. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  4. 1 2 Pryor, Sally (14 February 2015). "Interview: Robyn Cadwallader, author of The Anchoress". The Sydney Morning Herald . Retrieved 6 October 2017.
  5. "Short List 2019". the voss literary prize. 14 November 2019. Retrieved 21 November 2019.
  6. "Cadwallader wins 2019 ACT Book of the Year Award". Books+Publishing. 12 February 2020. Retrieved 18 February 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)