Claire Thomas Claire Thomas i(A27624 works by)
Born: Established: 1975 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Claire Thomas has published short stories in a range of Australian journals. She has an Honours degree in English and Art History from the University of Melbourne and has undertaken PhD studies, also at the University of Melbourne.

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y separately published work icon The Performance Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2021 20852394 2021 single work novel

'The false cold of the theatre makes it hard to imagine the heavy wind outside in the real world, the ash air pressing onto the city from the nearby hills where bushfires are taking hold.

'The house lights lower. 

'The auditorium feels hopeful in the darkness. '

'As bushfires rage outside the city, three women watch a performance of a Beckett play.

'Margot is a successful professor, preoccupied by her fraught relationship with her ailing husband. Ivy is a philanthropist with a troubled past, distracted by the snoring man beside her. Summer is a young theatre usher, anxious about the safety of her girlfriend in the fire zone.

'As the performance unfolds, so does each woman's story. By the time the curtain falls, they will all have a new understanding of the world beyond the stage.' (Publication summary)

2022 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Audiobook of the Year Narrated by Edwina Wren.
2022 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
2022 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
y separately published work icon Fugitive Blue Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1515932 2008 single work novel

'A beautiful, beguiling and multi-layered novel, Fugitive Blue tells the story of a young art conservator and her work on an unusual panel painting in striking ultramarine. As she restores the fragile artwork, she begins to speculate on its provenance - its controversial creation in Renaissance Venice and reappearance three hundred years later during a young nobleman's Grand Tour of Europe, passing through nineteenth-century Paris before its eventual arrival in Australia as one of the scarce possessions of a post-war Greek migrant family.

'Threaded through the painting's progress is the story of the young conservator's own life in contemporary Melbourne, her developing passion for her work and the demise of her relationship with an actor named Mark.' (Publisher's blurb)

2009 winner Kibble Literary Awards Nita May Dobbie Award
2009 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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