Diana Reid Diana Reid i(20598856 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Diana Reid holds a Bachelors of Arts (Hons) / Law from the University of Sydney. She is also the author of 1984! The Musical, which was due to play at the Edinburgh Fringe before the COVID-19 pandemic.

She published her debut novel in 2021.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 commended The Best of Times Short Story Competition Spring for 'Namesake'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Seeing Other People Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2022 24409087 2022 single work novel

'Charlie’s skin was stinging. Not with heat or sweat, but with that intense, body-defining self-consciousness—that sense of being watched. She lowered her eyes from Eleanor’s loving gaze. Her throat taut with tears, she swallowed. ‘You’re a good sister, Eleanor.’

'‘Don’t say that.’

'After two years of lockdowns, there’s change in the air. Eleanor has just broken up with her boyfriend, Charlie’s career as an actress is starting up again. They’re finally ready to pursue their dreams—relationships, career, family—if only they can work out what it is they really want.

'When principles and desires clash, Eleanor and Charlie are forced to ask: where is the line between self-love and selfishness? In all their confusion, mistakes will be made and lies will be told as they reckon with the limits of their own self-awareness.

'Seeing Other People is the darkly funny story of two very different sisters, and the summer that stretches their relationship almost to breaking point. ' (Publication summary)

2023 longlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2023 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2023 shortlisted Indie Awards Fiction
y separately published work icon Love and Virtue Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2021 21618821 2021 single work novel

'"Whenever I say I was at university with Eve, people ask me what she was like, sceptical perhaps that she could have always been as whole and self-assured as she now appears. To which I say something like: ‘People are infinitely complex.’ But I say it in such a way—so pregnant with misanthropy—that it’s obvious I hate her."

'Michaela and Eve are two bright, bold women who befriend each other their first year at a residential college at university, where they live in adjacent rooms. They could not be more different; one assured and popular – the other uncertain and eager-to-please. But something happens one night in O-week – a drunken encounter, a foggy memory that will force them to confront the realities of consent and wrestle with the dynamics of power.

'Initially bonded by their wit and sharp eye for the colleges’ mix of material wealth and moral poverty, Michaela and Eve soon discover how fragile friendship is, and how capable of betrayal they both are.

'Written with a strikingly contemporary voice that is both wickedly clever and incisive, issues of consent, class and institutional privilege, and feminism become provocations for enduring philosophical questions we face today.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 shortlisted Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
2022 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award Book of the Year
2022 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year
2022 highly commended New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2022 winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2022 winner Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2022 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2022 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2022 winner MUD Literary Prize
2022 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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