Brietta Hague

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Brietta Hague (born February 16, 1984 in Nundle) is a contemporary Australian author and actress whose work, it has been argued, should be seen a life-long project for 'reality' in a postmodern age. She has been nominated for a number of awards, for both her acting and her writing, including a nomination for the Man Booker Prize.

[edit] Life and Education

She grew up in Nundle, a small town in New South Wales, and attended Tamworth High School and then Charles Stuart University in Bathurst, a regional centre. Subsequently she worked variously as an usher and an immigration officer. She now writes and acts full-time.

She is currently married to American actor Jason Schwartzman, and they maintain homes in Los Angeles and Sydney.

[edit] Critical Reception

Her first published work was a novel entitled Repression, a work which combined radical formal experimentation (included in the novel were drawing, photographs, and poems) with a spare prose style and openly confessional content. This novel was seen by some as a uniting of the confessional poetics of Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton with the elegiac tone of W. G. Sebald. It was highly praised and subsequently nominated for the Man Booker Prize. Her other novels have had a similarly favourable critical reception. Her first film, in which she played the female lead and co-wrote the script, was nominated for a number of awards, including the Prix d'Italia, and was praised for its careful, realistic portrayal of life in Tuscany. She herself was nominated for the Best Actress award at the Screen Actors Guild. She is currently working in America as the writer and co-executive producer of the sitcom Be Gentile!, in which she also acts as a flaky fashion designer married to a neurotic Jewish psychoanalyst. The show has been praised as an hilarious, confronting view of cultural conflict, but has been criticised by some for its supposed anti-Semitism.