Stefan Laszczuk Stefan Laszczuk i(A73292 works by) (a.k.a. Stefan Lashchuk)
Born: Established: 1973 ;
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Writer and musician Stefan Laszczuk grew up in Adelaide and has also lived in Melbourne. He studied creative writing at the University of Adelaide under Thomas Shapcott (q.v.) and has undertaken studies towards a PhD in Creative Writing. Laszczuk nominates Roald Dahl as his greatest literary influence.

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • Winner of the 2002 SA Writers' Centre/Seaview Press/CM Digital short story competition.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon I Dream of Magda 2007 Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2008 Z1426510 2007 single work novel (taught in 6 units)

'''Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

'Tolstoy wasn't thinking specifically of the Harrison family when he wrote those words, but maybe he should have been. George Harrison is twenty-eight and afraid of the dark. His father is dead and his mother lives in la-la land. Reeling from a broken heart, and still coping with the trauma of a childhood home invasion, George works in a dead-end job in a bowling alley and finds rare solace in the giant painting of an alien that sits outside his room. His brother Matthew isn't much better off. After losing the love of his life in a traumatic car accident, he's retreated into a private world of sleep where he dreams about falling in love with comedienne Magda Szubanski.

'Matthew and George are each stuck in their own little messed-up world, with no idea how to get out, and neither of them is sure whether their unhappy family will ever finally pull together, or simply just fall apart.' (Publisher's blurb)

2009 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Newcomer of the Year
2007 winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript)
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