person or book cover
Photograph courtesy of the author
Michelle Aung Thin Michelle Aung Thin i(A112638 works by)
Born: Established: Rangoon,
c
Burma,
c
Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia, ;
Gender: Female
Arrived in Australia: Feb 1999
Heritage: Burmese ; English
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Michelle Aung Thin grew up in Canada. She completed a Creative Writers Master at the University of Melbourne (ca. 2007) and a PhD candidate at the University of Adelaide.

Her academic work explores creative narrative, postcolonial theory, and authenticity and belogning in mixed-race representation (among other subjects).

In 2021, she won the Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 recipient The Bundanon Trust Artist in Residence Program as part of NovelLab.
2021 recipient Blake-Beckett Trust Scholarship for 'The Japanese Photographer'.
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

$21,138
VIEW ALL AWARDS

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Monsoon Bride Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2011 Z1804284 2011 single work novel Winsome is just married and filled with anticipation. Her new husband is a stranger; one of the suitors chosen for her and the other mixed-race girls from the men who apply to the orphanage. But as the night train rattles towards her new home she sees possibility in this uncertain destiny (Libraries Australia).
2010 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer As Winsome of Rangoon
VIEW ALL AWARDS
Last amended 10 Jan 2022 09:39:39
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X