Meaghan Delahunt Meaghan Delahunt i(A3953 works by)
Born: Established: 1961 Melbourne, Victoria, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Irish
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Meaghan Delahunt is an Irish-Australian novelist, short story writer and essayist. Her work has been widely translated and anthologised. Her fiction has attracted international awards and critical acclaim.

In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ National Short Story Prize in Australia. Awards for her novels In the Blue House ( 2001), The Red Book (2008), To the Island (2011) and The Night-Side of the Country (2020) include a regional Commonwealth Prize, a Saltire Award and a nomination for the Orange Prize. Her short story collection, Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories (2015) was longlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize 2016.

She’s worked as a Creative Writing Tutor at the PPW Hospice in Glasgow and for St Columba’s Hospice in Edinburgh. She’s been a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at the University of Dundee and at Queen Margaret University, and has been a lecturer in Creative Writing at St Andrews and Stirling Universities and a tutor on the Oxford University MSt in Creative Writing course.

She was on the judging panel of the Dublin International Fiction Prize 2016 and the 2018-2019 Saltire Awards in Scotland. In 2020 she set up WordPath Scotland online Creative Writing courses with fellow writer Kirsty Gunn.

She has lived in Scotland and Greece since 1992.

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2002 recipient Asialink Arts Exchanges Program For residency in India
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon In the Blue House London : Bloomsbury , 2001 Z826344 2001 single work novel historical fiction

'This breathtaking first novel explores Leon Trotsky and his wife's years of Mexican exile in the home of Frida Kahlo and her husband Diego Rivera. Mingled with the voices of Stalin's desolate young wife and that of Trotsky himself are the tales of the lesser known who have also created history–the Mexican artist who foretells Trotsky's death; a Bolshevik engineer surviving the chill of the Stalinist regime; the bodyguard who is unable to prevent the assassination. Together, the stories reveal the panorama of Russian history, revolution, and upheaval in the twentieth century.'

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2002 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2002 winner Commonwealth Writers Prize — South-East Asia and South Pacific — First Work of Fiction
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