Delia Falconer Explained

Delia Falconer
Occupation:Novelist
Birth Place:Sydney, Australia
Birth Name:Delia Falconer

Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist best known for her novel The Service of Clouds. Her works have been nominated for several literary awards.[1]

Biography

Falconer is the only child of two graphic designers. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney and completed a Ph.D. in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.[2]

She is the author of the novels The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (which was republished in Australian paperback as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories). She also wrote Sydney, a personal history of her hometown, for the Australian Cities series.[3] [4]

she was a senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Technology Sydney.[5] She has served as judge of a number of literary awards, including the Calibre Prize (2015), the Stella Prize (2017), and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards (2017).

Recognition and awards

In 1998, Falconer was the recipient of the Marten Bequest Scholarship.[6]

Falconer's books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography.[4] [7]

In 2018, she won the Pascall Prize for "The Opposite of Glamour," which was published in the Sydney Review of Books.[8]

Selected works

Fiction

Nonfiction

As editor

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bio . 2023-03-14 . Delia Falconer an award-winning Australian writer . en-AU.
  2. Book: Falconer, Delia . Vanishing points : mapping the road in postwar American culture . 1995 . 6 May 2018 .
  3. Web site: Reintroducing the City Series in Paperback! :: NewSouth Publishing. 28 June 2021. 10 April 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210410115053/http://www.newsouthpublishing.com/reintroducing-city-series-paperback. dead.
  4. Book: Falconer, Delia . Signs and Wonders . Simon & Schuster AU . 29 September 2021 . 9781760857820 . 10 May 2022.
  5. Web site: Delia Falconer University of Technology Sydney. University of Technology Sydney . 2019-05-19.
  6. Web site: Recipients Of Our Co-investment Opportunities . . 18 October 2021 . 10 May 2022.
  7. Web site: Metherell . Gia . 2012-05-01 . National Biography Award finalists . 2022-08-29 . The Sydney Morning Herald . en.
  8. Web site: Dr Delia Falconer wins 2018 Walkley-Pascall Award . University of Technology Sydney . 19 July 2018 . en. 2019-05-19.
  9. Book: Falconer, Delia . The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers . 2005 . Picador . Internet Archive . 9780330421799.

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