Kavita Bedford Kavita Bedford i(7282626 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Indian
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BiographyHistory

Kavita Bedford is an Australian-Indian writer. Her first novel, Friends and Dark Shapes (2021) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards, the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, and Small Press Network's Book of the Year. 

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2016 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Australia Council Literature Board Grants Literature Development Grants Individuals and Groups $7,000.00

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Friends and Dark Shapes Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2021 20533286 2021 single work novel

'The city I grew up in was elastic and belonged to me and my friends as we stretched it through the nights. We knew its contours, and when something new arrived we were among the first to be a part of it. Everything was powder pink and bendy and shiny for us. We hadn’t had time to build a lasting memory around some fixture and then watch that time fall away from under us.

'A group of friends moves into a share house in Redfern. They are all on the cusp of thirty and big life changes, navigating insecure employment and housing, second-generation identity, online dating and social alienation—and one of them, our narrator, has just lost her father.

'How do you inhabit a space where the landscape is shifting around you, when your sense of self is unravelling? What meaning does time have in the midst of grief?

'Through emotionally rich vignettes, tinged with humour, Friends & Dark Shapes sketches the contours of contemporary life. It is a novel of love and loss, of constancy and change. Most of all, it is about looking for connection in an estranged world.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Small Press Network Book of the Year Award
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
2022 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover designed by Imogen Stubbs.
2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
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