Karen Manton Karen Manton i(A88531 works by)
Born: Established: 1967 ;
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Karen Manton lived in Melbourne for some years before moving to Darwin. In 2005 Manton won Varuna's Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellowship for the development of an outstanding work of fiction. Also through Varuna, in 2006 she was awarded a three-week residency in Edinburgh - The UNESCO City of Literature.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2024 recipient Varuna Fellowships Arts NT Varuna Fellowship Virtual/online residency for 'Ghsot Tide', novel.
2020 shortlisted Northern Territory Literary Awards Short Story Award for 'Bull Buster'.
2012 winner Northern Territory Literary Awards Short Story Award for 'Pig'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Curlew's Eye Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2021 22116139 2021 single work novel

'A richly atmospheric Gothic mystery set around a ruined homestead in the NT's Top End.

''It struck her that in all these years, every highway and meandering track they'd taken together had been heading towards this destination. A shack perched halfway up a hill in an other-world of bizarre shadow plants and dark sentinel trees . . . Every road had been leading here, to this place.'

'Greta's partner Joel grew up with five brothers and a sister in a feisty household on an isolated NT property. But he doesn't talk about those days - not the deaths of his sister and mother, nor the origin of the scars that snake around his body.

'Now, many years later, he returns with Greta and their three young boys to prepare the place for sale. The boys are quick to settle in, and Joel seems preoccupied with work, but Greta has a growing sense of unease, struggling in the build-up's oppressive heat and living in the shadow of the old, burned-out family home. She knows she's a stranger in this uncanny place, with its eerie and alluring landscape, hostile neighbour, and a toxic dam whose clear waters belie its poison. And then there's the mysterious girl living rough whom Greta tries to befriend.

'Determined to make sense of it all, Greta is drawn into Joel's unspoken past and confronted by her own. Before long the curlew's haunting cry will call her to face the secrets she and Joel can no longer outrun.' (Publication summary)

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2022 shortlisted Territory Read Book of the Year Chief Minister's NT Book Awards Fiction
2022 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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