Caro Llewellyn Caro Llewellyn i(A25117 works by)
Born: Established: 1965 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Caro Llewellyn has been Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers' Festival and, in 2006, became the Director of PEN World Voices, New York. She left the latter position in 2010 in order to direct the centenary celebrations of the New York Public Library. In 2017 Caro was appointed Director of Experience and Engagement at Museums Victoria.

Llewellyn is the daughter of Kate Llewellyn

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2023 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Arts Projects for Individuals and Groups $50,000

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Diving into Glass Sydney : Hamish Hamilton , 2019 14895713 2019 single work autobiography

'Caro Llewellyn was living her dream life in her adopted home of New York, directing an international literary festival. Then one day, running in Central Park, she lost all sensation in her legs. Two days later she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.

'Caro was no stranger to tragedy. Her father Richard contracted polio at the age of twenty and spent the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Dignified, undaunted and ingenious, he was determined to make every day count, not least seducing his nurse while still confined to an iron lung, then marrying her.

'But when Caro was herself blindsided by illness, cut loose from everything she depended on, she couldn’t summon any of the grace and courage she’d witnessed growing up. She was furious, toxic, humiliated. Only by looking back at her father’s extraordinary example was she able to rediscover her own grit and find a way forward, rebuilding her life shard by shard.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 shortlisted The Stella Prize
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