Mireille Juchau Mireille Juchau i(A20159 works by)
Born: Established: 1969 Sydney, New South Wales, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Jewish
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BiographyHistory

Mireille Juchau has worked as a researcher and at one point was assistant editor of The UTS Review. She has lectured in creative writing at a number of universities, and holds a Ph. D. in writing and philosophy.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2020 winner Walkley Award Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism
2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

Literature Career Development Grants for Individuals and Groups $7,147.00

2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships

$50,000

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The World Without Us London : Bloomsbury , 2015 8766255 2015 single work novel

'It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled.

'Their father, Stefan, struggling with his own losses, tends to his apiary and tries to understand why his bees are disappearing. But after he discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family.

'One day Tess's teacher Jim encounters Evangeline by the wild Repentance River. Jim is in flight from his own troubles in Sydney, and Evangeline, raised in a mountain commune and bearing the scars of the fire that destroyed it, is a puzzle he longs to solve.

'As the rainforest trees are felled and the lakes fill with run-off from the expanding mines, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path.

'Sometimes we must confront what has been lost so that we can know the solace of being found.

'The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal.' (Publication summary)

2016 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2016 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2016 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2016 shortlisted The Stella Prize
2016 winner Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for Fiction
2018 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards Award for Fiction
2017 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2016 highly commended Barbara Jefferis Award
y separately published work icon Burning In Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2007 Z1432957 2007 single work novel (taught in 2 units) In her late twenties, Martine Hartmann moves from Sydney to New York to pursue her career as a photographer, leaving behind her mother Lotte, a Holocaust survivor. Nine years later, Martine's daughter Ruby goes missing in Central Park. Ruby's disappearance throws Martine into an emotional struggle which threatens to overwhelm her, but which also, in time, brings her to understand Lotte's anxieties and inhibitions, and to discover the act of abandonment at their heart. - back cover
2008 longlisted Australia-Asia Literary Award
2008 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction
2008 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award Fiction Prize
2008 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards Nita Kibble Literary Award
2008 highly commended Barbara Jefferis Award
2008 shortlisted South East Asia and South Pacific Region Best Book
White Gifts 2003 single work drama
— Appears in: Heat , no. 5 (New Series) 2003; (p. 89-99)
2002 winner Perishable Theatre International Women's Playwriting Competition
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