Carrie Tiffany

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Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.

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[edit] Biography

Tiffany was born in West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In her early twenties she worked as a park ranger in Central Australia.

In 1988 they moved to Sydney where she began work as a writer, focusing mainly on agriculture. Moving again, to Melbourne in 2000, Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a creative writing course. She has two children, Tess Smurthwaite and Guy Tiffany. She completed a Masters Degree in Creative Writing at RMIT University and is working towards her doctorate at Latrobe University.[1]

Tiffany's debut novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, was a remarkable success on its release in 2005, winning several awards and shortlisted for some major awards, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Orange Prize.

[edit] Awards and nominations

  • Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living

[edit] Bibliography

  • Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2005) ISBN: 0330421913

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Carrie Tiffany, Author/Agriculturalist Journalist. Booked Out Agency. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  2. ^ First and foremost: Guardian First Book Award 2006. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  3. ^ The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006. State Library of Australia. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.
  4. ^ Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 01 August 2007. Orange Prize. Retrieved on 2007-08-01.

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NAME Tiffany, Carrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Contemporary Australiann novelist
DATE OF BIRTH 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Perth, Western Australia, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH


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