Carmel Bird

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Carmel Bird (born 1940) is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and essays. She has written books on the art of writing, and has edited anthologies of essays and stories. In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award. [1]

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Writing career

Her first collection of short stories (1976) was titled Dimitra and Other Stories, [2] and her most recent novel (2019) is Field of Poppies. [3] In 2016 she published the novel FamilySkeleton. [4] In 2010 she published the novel Child of the Twilight. [5] Her most recent collection of short fiction is the ebook The Dead Aviatrix (2017). [6] My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015) [7] is also a collection of short fiction. Her most recent non-fiction is Fair Game (2015). [8]

In 2016, she was awarded the Patrick White Literary Award "in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Australian literature". [9]

Awards and nominations

Bibliography

Novels

Collections

Anthologies (Edited)

Non-fiction

Children's

Book reviews

DateReview articleWork(s) reviewed
2011Bird, Carmel (June 2011). "Graphic impact". Australian Book Review (332): 59.Wilson, Rohan (2011). The Roving Party. Allen & Unwin.
2011Bird, Carmel (September 2011). "Whispering death". Australian Book Review (334): 27.Richards, Tim (2011). Thought crimes. Black Inc.

References and notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Carmel Bird". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Archived from the original on 5 July 2013. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  2. ↑ Power, Carmel; Stewart, Maureen (1976), Dimitra, Macmillan, ISBN   978-0-333-21090-1
  3. ↑ Bird, Carmel (2019), Field of poppies, Transit Lounge, ISBN   978-1-925760-39-2
  4. ↑ Bird, Carmel (2016), Family skeleton, UWA Publishing, ISBN   978-1-74258-890-2
  5. ↑ Bird, Carmel (2010), Child of the Twilight, HarperCollins Publishers, ISBN   978-0-7304-4537-1
  6. ↑ "The Dead Aviatrix : Eight Short Stories". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Archived from the original on 22 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2021.
  7. ↑ Bird, Carmel (2015), My Hearts Are Your Hearts, Strawberry Hills, NSW: Spineless Wonders, ISBN   978-1-925052-08-4
  8. ↑ Bird, Carmel (2015), Fair game: A Tasmanian memoir, Finlay Lloyd, ISBN   978-0-9875929-6-5
  9. ↑ "Carmel Bird wins the 2016 Patrick White Award". ANZ LitLovers LitBlog. 18 October 2016. Retrieved 30 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Mildura Writers' Festival, Thursday 20 - Sunday 23 July 2006". Arts Festival 07 Mildura/Wentworth. Archived from the original on 8 June 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2007.

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