Nicholas Glen Angel Nicholas Glen Angel i(A78311 works by) (a.k.a. Nick Angel)
Gender: Male
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BiographyHistory

Nick Angel grew up on his parent's property near Moonie, Western Queensland and was educated at an Anglican Grammar School. While completing his secondary education, he was an exchange student and lived in Nimes, France. After completeing a Law degree at the Queensland University of Technology, he returned to France to continue studying. Having attained proficiency in the French language, he gained a postion as a lawyer in Paris.

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y separately published work icon Drown Them in the Sea 2003 Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2004 Z1075420 2003 single work novel

'With dreams of moving to a house by the sea haunting their every day, Millvan and his wife, Michelle, owners of a riverside property in a small outback farming community, struggle with drought, friends, adversaries and the wrenchingly familiar rural cycle of hope and despair.

'Drown them in the Sea tells a compellingly honest story of the challenges and hardships of farming life in Australia. In vivid, vital language, Nicholas Angel captures both devastated landscape and human desire in this powerfully authentic evocation of life on the land.' (Synopsis)
2005 joint winner The Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist of the Year
2003 joint winner The Australian / Vogel National Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) joint winner with Ruth Balint's non-fiction work, Troubled Waters.
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