Catherine McNamara Catherine McNamara i(A139307 works by)
Also writes as: Catherine Conzato
Gender: Female
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Catherine McNamara has a degree in African and Asian Modern History from Sydney University. In Australia, she worked as a travel/features writer for the Sydney Morning Herald for five years. In 1994, she moved to Africa, where she lived for thirteen years, including working in an embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, and running a bar and traditional art gallery in Accra, Ghana. In 2007, she moved to Italy.

Her short stories and poems (many published under the name Catherine Conzato) have appeared in literary magazines and anthologies in Australia, Britain, and the USA. In 2001, her non-fiction children's book Nii Kwei's Day: From Dawn to Dusk in a Ghanaian Town, with photographs by Ghanaian photographer Francis Provencal, was published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books in London.

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y separately published work icon The Carnal Fugues Glebe : Puncher and Wattmann , 2023 26646342 2023 selected work short story

'A wayward, wanton selection of stories grounded in displacement, desire, and the wish coursing through us to accede to the state of love. There is torment and illness, crude reality and distant fragrant places, peopled by characters that reside close to our bones, our psyches, our flesh. A Japanese soprano has lost her voice and seeks repose on a sailing boat in Corsica. A South African advertising executive learns the ropes at his Accra office. Destructive lovers interview a renowned musician in dusty Bamako. In London, a Rome-based man happens upon a woman from the past, bringing back a passionate interlude he has hidden from himself. Lovers meet, fade, delude. We are weak and defiant beings, ever-learning, ever-lustful.' (Publication summary)
2024 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Fiction
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