Janine Burke

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Janine Burke, (born 2 March 1952), in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, is a writer and novelist, and art critic and historian.

After growing up in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Perth, she graduated from Melbourne University with an Arts Degree in 1974. She subsequently completed a Master of Arts degree at LaTrobe University in 1983 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree at Deakin University in 2001. She was a founding member of the feminist art journal Lip. She currently lives in Melbourne.

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[edit] Awards

The Miles Franklin Award Company of Images, shortlisted 1990
Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction Second Sight, winner 1987

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

  • Speaking: A Novel (1984)
  • Second Sight (1986)
  • Company of Images (1989)
  • Lullaby: A Novel (1994)
  • Journey to Bright Water (1994)
  • The Blue Faraway (1996)
  • Our Lady of Apollo Bay (2001)

[edit] Childrens

[edit] Non-Fiction

  • Joy Hester (1981)
  • Dear Sun: The Letters of Joy Hester and Sunday Reed (1995)
  • Australian Gothic: A Life of Albert Tucker (2002)
  • The Heart Garden (2004)
  • The Gods of Freud: Sigmund Freud's Art Collection (2006)

[edit] References

  • Adelaide, Debra (1988) Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide, London, Pandora
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