Gender:
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BiographyHistory
Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
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2017
recipient
The Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund
$5,760awarded for a research trip to Christmas Island, Port Headland and Acacia Prison to inform her novel 'Refugee Zoo', which concerns the life and death of Ahmad Shah Abed.
Awards for Works
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y
Holy Bible
Collingwood
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Sleepers Publishing
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2013
5983582
2013
single work
novel
'Tranquillity Bloom belongs to her parents’ tiny religion in Ballarat, but dreams of escaping to the city. When Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, her father tries to force her to get baptised. She manages to hold out, but doesn’t know how long she can last. Then her eldest brother and his Outsider wife stop attending, and Tranquillity sees exactly how painful leaving her religion can be.' (Publisher's blurb)
- 2014 shortlisted Most Underrated Book Award
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