Heather Rose Heather Rose i(A32954 works by)
Also writes as: Angelica Banks
Born: Established: 1964 Tasmania, ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Rose grew up in Tasmania, then she travelled in Asia, Europe and America before settling in Melbourne and working as a copywriter in advertising. In 1996 she moved back to Tasmania, and in 2006 she was the recipient of the Eleanor Dark Fellowship.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Not to be confused with Heather Rose, script-writer and actor for Dance Me to My Song.

Personal Awards

2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $48,964
2016 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships Australia Council Literature Board Grants Literature Arts Projects For Individuals and Groups $40,000.00

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2022 25093254 2022 single work autobiography

'A deeply personal collection filled with reflections on love, death, creativity and healing, from the award-winning author of Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love.

'With rare subtlety and humanity, this novel relocates the difficult path to wonder in us all.' The Christina Stead Prize judges on The Museum of Modern Love

'And then it occurred to me that nothing bad ever happens here.

'Every human life is perfect in its own way. We cannot understand that, because it seems like there is so much suffering. But maybe every life is perfect for we need to know and learn and see and understand. Even when we don't understand, even when the suffering seems unfathomable, does some part of us understand? Could that really be true, I wondered?

'Nothing bad ever happens here...

'My body was shaking violently now. I held onto the rock beneath me as if I was clinging to life itself. Maybe I was. I clung to this life, my life, with all its imperfections and mistakes, with all its joy. I didn't want to go anywhere.

'After a shocking family tragedy transforms Heather Rose's Tasmanian childhood, she becomes 'a seeker of life and all its mysteries'. Heather has spent a lifetime testing boundaries and exploring the connections between love and death, the natural world and the body. Her questing spirit and her strong affinity with nature have inspired and driven her throughout her life-and deeply sustained her in times of darkness. Her words will bring wonder, light and comfort to all who read this astonishing book.

'Nothing Bad Ever Happens Here is a luminous, compelling and utterly surprising memoir by the bestselling author of Stella Prize-winner The Museum of Modern Love and Bruny.'  (Publication summary)

2023 shortlisted Indie Awards Nonfiction
y separately published work icon Bruny Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2019 16850614 2019 single work novel

'How far would your government go?

'A right-wing US president has withdrawn America from the Middle East and the UN. Daesh has a thoroughfare to the sea and China is Australia's newest ally. When a bomb goes off in remote Tasmania, Astrid Coleman agrees to return home to help her brother before an upcoming election. But this is no simple task. Her brother and sister are on either side of politics, the community is full of conspiracy theories, and her father is quoting Shakespeare. Only on Bruny does the world seem sane.

'Until Astrid discovers how far the government is willing to go.

'Bruny is a searing, subversive, brilliant novel about family, love, loyalty and the new world order.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
2020 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2020 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2020 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2020 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover Cover designed by Sandy Cull
2020 shortlisted Indie Awards Fiction
y separately published work icon The Museum of Modern Love Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2016 9613078 2016 single work novel

''If this was a dream, then he wanted to know when it would end. Maybe it would end if he went to see Lydia. But it was the one thing he was not allowed to do.'...

Arky Swann is a film composer in New York separated from his wife, who has made him promise to keep a terrible secret. One day he finds his way to The Atrium at MOMA and sees Marina Abramovic in her performance The Artist is Present. The performance continues for seventy-five days and, as it unfolds, so does Arky as he considers marriage, art and the nature of commitment and love over a long-term union. The Museum of Modern Love is the story of one of the world's greatest art events and a man in search of connection.' (Publication summary)

2018 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2017 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
2017 winner Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Margaret Scott Prize

The Museum of Modern Love also won the People's Choice Award in this category.

2017 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2017 shortlisted ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
2017 winner The Stella Prize
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