Meaghan Delahunt
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| Born | 1961 Melbourne, Australia |
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| Residence | East Coast of Scotland |
Meaghan Delahunt (b. 1961) is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland.[1] In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing there.
In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia.[2]
Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House, won a regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in 2002, the Saltire Award for First Novel, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the year award, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[3]
Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.[4]
[edit] Bibliography
- In the Blue House, (Bloomsbury, 2002) ISBN 0747557659 review Socialist Worker review Socialist Action
[edit] Notes
- ^ Meaghan Delahunt. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval. ABC Radio National, The Book Show. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ 2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. NSW Minister for the Arts. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
- ^ Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt. Living. Scotsman.com. Retrieved on 2007-07-16.
[edit] External links
- Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval ABC Radio National, The Book Show 27 March 2006
- Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt, 9 March 2003 Living. Scotsman.com accessed 16 July 2007
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| NAME | Delahunt, Meaghan |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne,Australia |
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