Kathryn Heyman
Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer.
Career
Born New South Wales, Australia, she trained for an acting career in Queensland, after a year with a theatre company in Sydney.[1][2] Heyman spent a decade living in the United Kingdom, where she was first published. [3]
Heyman is the author of five novels: The Breaking (1997), Keep Your Hands on the Wheel (1999), The Accomplice (2003) Captain Starlight's Apprentice (2006) and Floodline (2013).[4] She is also a playwright for theatre and radio and has held a number of creative writing fellowships in the UK and Australia. Her short stories have appeared in a number of collections and also on radio.
Heyman's first novel, The Breaking, was longlisted for the Orange Prize, and shortlisted for the Scottish Writer of the Year Award.[5] Her third, The Accomplice, won an Arts Council England Writer's Award and was shortlisted for the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards. The Accomplice is a fictional account of the wreck of the Dutch flagship the Batavia off the Australian coast in the 17th century. As a meditation on complicity with evil it has been compared with the work of Joseph Conrad and William Golding.[6]
Her fourth novel, Captain Starlight's Apprentice, features a woman bushranger, the birth (and near death) of the Australian film industry, and a British migrant to Australia who undergoes electroconvulsive therapy. In 2007 the novel was shortlisted for the Nita Kibble Literary Award.
Floodline, published 2013, is set during the aftermath of a great flood, and has been compared with the writing of Cormac McCarthy.[7] Heyman's writing has also been compared with that of Angela Carter,[8] David Malouf,[9] Peter Carey and Kate Grenville.[10]
Heyman's work has appeared on BBC Radio 4, and a five-part dramatic adaptation of Captain Starlight's Apprentice was broadcast on Woman's Hour in April 2007.[11] In 2013 she delivered the NSW Premier's Literary Awards Address [12]
Books
- The Breaking. Phoenix House (1997)
- Keep Your Hands on the Wheel. Phoenix House (1999)
- The Accomplice. Hodder Headline (2003)
- Captain Starlight's Apprentice. Hodder Headline (2006)
- Floodline Allen & Unwin (2013)
Plays
- The Princess Who Couldn't Fly (and a Word or Two About the Crippled King) (1990)
- Unreal (1991)
- Sex, Lies and Model Aeroplanes (1991) with David Lennie and Paul Tolton
- Exodus (1993) with David Purveur
- Dancing on the Word (1993)
- That's The Way to Do It (1994) with Jo Enright
- Far Country (2002) starring Kerry Fox
- Keep Your Hands on the Wheel (2003) starring Kerry Fox
- Moonlight's Boy (2005)
- Captain Starlight's Apprentice (2007)
Awards
- Australia Council Established Writers New Work Grant 2006 – 2008
- Kibble Prize, shortlist (Captain Starlight's Apprentice)
- Arts Council of England Writer's Award (The Accomplice)
- West Australian Premier's Prize, shortlist,(The Accomplice)
- Wingate Scholarship (The Accomplice)
- Southern Arts Writers Award (Keep Your Hands on the Wheel)
- Orange Prize, longlist,(The Breaking)
- Stakis Prize for Scottish Writer of the Year, shortlist, (The Breaking)
- Hallam Poetry Prize, 1996
References
- ↑ Biography: "Kathryn Heyman", Royal Literary Fund
- ↑ Biography: Kathryn Heyman, Austlit Database
- ↑ Heyman, 'There's no place like home' Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, no. 15 July 2006, pp. 31-32.
- ↑ Allen & Unwin, publisher
- ↑ McMillan,Joyce, A familiar fear and loathing, Glasgow Herald Friday 21 November 1997
- ↑ Chevalier, Tracey et al "Summer Reading", The Guardian, 2003
- ↑ Clarke,Stella, City's souls lost and saved in the flood, The Australian, September 14, 2013
- ↑ Sanders, Kate The Times May 27, 2006
- ↑ Duncan, Shirley J. Paolini, 'Outlaw odyssey.(Captain Starlight's Apprentice)(Book review)' Antipodes, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 89(2).
- ↑ White, Judith The Bulletin May 30, 2006
- ↑ BBC – Woman's Hour Drama – Captain Starlight's Apprentice
- ↑ http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/about/awards/premiers_awards/nsw_premiers_literary_awards/2013/2013_nsw_premiers_literary_awards_address.html
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