Robert Power Robert Power i(A117290 works by)
Born: Established: Dublin, Dublin (County),
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Ireland,
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Male
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'Robert Power was born in Dublin and now lives in Melbourne, as an Australian citizen... He freelanced as a journalist in London for a decade, appearing regularly in newsprint and magazines including the Guardian, New Society, New Statesman, Radio Times, Time Out, [and] City Limits... Robert has worked in HIV prevention for many years, travelling to all continents as a consultant and publishing over 100 academic journal articles, appearing on TV and radio in Australia and abroad. He paints in oils and acrylics and has had five solo and four group exhibitions and numerous commissions.'

Power has been Principal for Disease Prevention at the Burnet Institute in Melbourne, a Professor in the School of Population Health, University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Professor at Monash University.

Major source: Transit Lounge website, http://www.transitlounge.com.au/
Sighted: 31/10/2011

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Meatloaf in Manhattan 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 14 January 2012; (p. 28-29)

Robert Power's story about a man's visit to New York, and his callous treatment of a lonely waitress he meets in a diner there, has come second in The Age short-story award.

(Source: Sydney Morning Herald)

2012 second The Age Short Story Competition
y separately published work icon In Search of the Blue Tiger 2008 Yarraville : Transit Lounge , 2012 Z1520759 2008 single work novel

 'Eleven year old Oscar Flowers is on a quest to make sense of the strange world of adults that surrounds him in the seaside town of Tidetown. The bizarre behaviour of his parents and great aunt impels him to search for the blue tiger, a powerful and beautiful animal that will save his family from themselves. Mrs April, the town's librarian, helps Oscar in his pursuit of knowledge and generously shares her great love of books with him. A deep and wondrous friendship develops. Yet as Oscar falls under the influence of his peers, the fishmonger's peculiar twin daughters, Perch and Carp, he becomes embroiled in a dark crime of vengeance with seemingly disastrous consequences.

'Hugely positive and an imaginative tour de force In Search of the Blue Tiger is at once a celebration of books and reading, an affecting love story between a widowed town librarian and a lonely troubled child and a gripping testament to the way that any of us can move beyond the mistakes of our past to a new beginning.' (Publication summary)

2008 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
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