Chris Somerville Chris Somerville i(A78628 works by)
Born: Established: 1984 ;
Gender: Male
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Awards for Works

y separately published work icon We Are Not the Same Anymore St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2013 Z1924860 2013 selected work short story 'We are Not the Same Anymore is a collection of short fiction about people trying to connect with each other and the difficulties of finding intimacy. In these stories, Chris Somerville plays out the small catastrophes of everyday life, cutting his characters adrift in the uneasiness that ensues. A man turns up at his daughter's birthday party with a goldfish in an ice-cream container. On the way to collect firewood, a woman and her teenaged neighbour crash in a snowstorm. An unwilling son helps his sister and father put up posters for a missing dog named Michael. Familiar and endearing, Somerville's characters are consumed with their own neuroses, and through their eyes, the landscape of the domestic becomes surreal and dully terrifying. Suffused with a dark humour, their struggles for intimacy are recreated on the page with a deft and affectionate touch.' (Publisher's blurb)
2013 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards University of Southern Queensland Australian Short Story Collection – Steele Rudd Award
As Long As You're Here 2009 single work short story
— Appears in: Perilous Adventures , vol. 09 no. 5 2009;
2009 Winner Perilous Adventures Short Story Award
y separately published work icon Young Liars and Other Stories 2009 (Manuscript version)x402091 Z1621556 2009 selected work short story
2009 shortlisted Queensland Premier's Literary Awards Best Manuscript of an Emerging Queensland Author
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