Clare Moleta (International) assertion Clare Moleta i(A47583 works by) (a.k.a. Clare Francesca Moleta)
Born: Established: 1974 Wellington, Wellington (Region), North Island,
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New Zealand,
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Pacific Region,
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Gender: Female
Visitor assertion Arrived in Australia: 1974 Departed from Australia: 2005
Heritage: New Zealander
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BiographyHistory

Clare Moleta was born in New Zealand (a Pakeha) and grew up in Western Australia. Her father, Vincent Moleta, is an author, translator and founder of Aeolian Press which published her story, The Little Bird of Bethlehem, when she was in primary school. After some years overseas, she returned to Australia, where she ran a street theatre group, trained at John Bolton's Theatre School in Melbourne and completed a Diploma in Writing and Editing at RMIT.

After a long break, she also began to get published again; writing on the arts and social and environmental justice for Inpress magazine and Full Haus, Stage Left and Friends of the Earth quarterlies. Her short stories were published in Crowd Control magazine, shortlisted in HQ's short story competition, performed at spoken word events and projected on city walls as part of the Scarab installation project.

For four years she also worked with creative future collective; a big puppet and theatre group based in Melbourne's Trades Hall, and during this time she wrote a handbook of creative techniques for activists and community groups. Since moving to Wellington in 2005 Clare has been a finalist in the Katherine Mansfield short story competition and won a New Travel Writer category at the annual Travcom travel media awards. She is now writing travel pieces for the Herald on Sunday and AA Directions magazine and her story, 'God's Brain and the Souls of Birds' was included in the latest edition of New Zealand literary journal Sport.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Unsheltered Cammeray : Simon and Schuster Australia , 2021 21903267 2021 single work novel

'As the resourceful, relentless Li tracks her lost daughter across a disintegrating country, the journey will test the limits of her trust, her hope and her love. Unsheltered will leave you wrung out and gasping.

'Relentlessly propulsive and profoundly moving, Unsheltered taps into some of our worst fears and most implacable motivations, marking the emergence of a fully-formed and urgent literary voice.

'Against a background of social breakdown and destructive weather, Unsheltered tells the story of a woman’s search for her daughter. Li never wanted to bring a child into a world like this but now that eight-year-old Matti is missing, she will stop at nothing to find her.

'As she crosses the great barren country alone and on foot, living on what she can find and fuelled by visions of her daughter just out of sight ahead, Li will have every instinct tested. She knows the odds against her: an uncompromising landscape, an indifferent system, time running out, and the risks of any encounters on the road. But the greatest obstacles of all might be her own uncertainty and the ghosts of her past. Because even if she finds her, how can she hope to shield Matti from what is to come?

'At times tender, at times terrifying, Unsheltered is an engrossing, unpredictable novel that keeps the reader in suspense all the way to the end. A brilliant feat of imagination that asks if our humanity is the only protection we have left, Unsheltered will affect you in ways a book hasn’t done in years.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 longlisted New Zealand Book Awards New Zealand Post Book Awards Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction
2022 shortlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2022 longlisted Colin Roderick Award
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