Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears (born 1964) is an Australian short story writer, and novelist. Her books, Ride a Cock Horse, and The Grass Sister won a Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, in 1989, and 1996. The Mint Lawn won The Australian/Vogel Award.^[1] In 2003, A Map of the Gardens won the Steele Rudd Award.^[2]

Life

She grew up in New South Wales. She studied at the University of Sydney in Archeology. She studied writing at the University of Technology, Sydney.^[3] She lived near Grafton, New South Wales.^[4]

Awards and honors

• 1989 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, Ride a Cock Horse
• 1990 The Australian/Vogel Literary Award, winner, The Mint Lawn
• 1996 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, shortlist, The Grass Sister
• 2003 Steele Rudd Award, winner, A Map of the Gardens
• 2012 Miles Franklin Award, shortlist, Foal's Bread
• 2012 Australian Literature Society, Gold Medal, Foal's Bread ^[5]
• 2012 Prime Minister's Literary Awards, Fiction Award, Foal's Bread ^[6]

Works

Novels

• The Mint Lawn, Allen & Unwin, 1991, ISBN 978-1-86373-016-7
• The Grass Sister, Alfred A. Knopf, 1995, ISBN 978-0-09-183121-9
• Foal's Bread, Allen & Unwin, 2011, ISBN 978-1-74237-629-5

Short stories

• Ride a Cock Horse Pascoe Publishing, 1988, ISBN 978-0-947087-12-8
• Fineflour. University of Queensland Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-7022-2311-2. 
• Collected stories, University of Queensland Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-7022-2950-3
• A map of the gardens: stories, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2002, ISBN 978-0-330-36346-4

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Non-fiction

• Paradise is a place, Photographer Sandy Edwards, Random House Australia, 1997, ISBN 978-0-09-183641-2

Memoir

• Alive in Ant and Bee

References

External links

• "Runaway success", Janet Hawley, 7 May 2002