Marion Halligan
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Marion Halligan (born 16 April 1940) is an Australian writer and novelist. She was born and educated in Newcastle, New South Wales, and worked as a school teacher and journalist before publishing her first short stories. Halligan has served as chairperson of the Literature Board of the Australia Council and the Australian National Word Festival. She currently lives in Canberra.
She was made a Member in the Order of Australia (AM), General Division, in 2006.
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[edit] Awards
| The Miles Franklin Award | The Golden Dress, shortlisted 1999 |
| Commonwealth Writers' Prize | The Point, South East Asia and South Pacific Region, Best Book 2004 shortlisted |
| Nita Kibble Literary Award | The Fog Garden, 2002 shortlisted |
| Lovers' Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel, 1994 winner | |
| NBC Banjo Award | Lovers' Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel, 1993 shortlisted |
| The Spider Cup, 1990 shortlisted | |
| Age Book of the Year Award | Lovers' Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel, Imaginative Writing Prize 1992 winner; Book of the Year 1992 joint winner |
| The Golden Dress, Fiction Prize 1998 shortlisted | |
| Geraldine Pascall Prize for Critical Writing | Eat My Words, 1990 winner |
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- Self Possession (1987)
- Spider Cup (1990)
- Lovers' Knots: A Hundred-Year Novel (1992)
- Wishbone (1994)
- The Golden Dress (1998)
- The Fog Garden (2001)
- The Point (2003)
- The Apricot Colonel (2006)
[edit] Short story collections
- The Living Hothouse (1988)
- The Hanged Man in the Garden (1989)
- The Worry Box (1993)
- Collected Stories (1997)
[edit] Non-fiction
- Eat My Words (1990)
- Out of the Picture (1996) - collection
- Cockles of the Heart (1996) - travel
- Those Women Who Go To Hotels (1997) - autobiography, travel
- The Taste of Memory (2004)
[edit] Edited
[edit] Children's
- The Midwife's Daughters (1997)
