Kathryn Heyman Explained

Kathryn Heyman is an Australian writer of novels and plays. She is the director of the Australian Writers Mentoring Program[1] and Fiction Program Director of Faber Writing Academy.[2]

Career

Born in New South Wales, Australia, she was brought up in Lake Macquarie with her four siblings.[3] [4]

As a young adult Heyman spent many years in the United Kingdom, where she studied under the Caribbean poet E.A. Markham, and where she was first published.[5]

Heyman is the author of six novels: The Breaking (1997), Keep Your Hands on the Wheel (1999), The Accomplice (2003) Captain Starlight's Apprentice (2006) Floodline (2013) and Storm and Grace (2017)[6] 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.[7] 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.[8]

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.[9] Heyman's writing has also been compared with that of Angela Carter,[10] David Malouf,[11] Peter Carey and Kate Grenville.[12]

Heyman's sixth novel Storm & Grace, a psychological thriller about freediving, deals with violence against women and was published by Allen & Unwin in February 2017.[13]

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.[14] In 2013 she delivered the NSW Premier's Literary Awards keynote address.[15]

Books

Plays

Works for BBC Radio

Awards

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.swf.org.au/authors/kathryn-heyman/ Author profile
  2. http://faberwritingacademy.com.au/writing_a_novel.html#.WajagMgjGUl Faber Writing Academy, Writing a Novel
  3. Jodie Minus, "The Face: Kathryn Heyman", Weekend Australian, 17–18 May 2003, Review, p. R3.
  4. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-05-25/kathryn-heyman-fury-the-fishing-trawler-that-changed-her-life/100151506 Kelsey-Sugg, Anna & Zajac, Bec, "When Kathryn Heyman was traumatised and needing to escape, a fishing trawler offered her the hope of salvation", ABC Radio National, 25 May 2012.
  5. Heyman, "There's no place like home", Sydney Morning Herald, Good Weekend, no. 15 July 2006, pp. 31–32.
  6. http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=94&book=9781743312797 Allen & Unwin
  7. McMillan,Joyce, A familiar fear and loathing, http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/a-familiar-fear-and-loathing-1.368675Glasgow Herald Friday 21 November 1997
  8. Chevalier, Tracey, et al., "Summer Reading", The Guardian, 2003.
  9. Clarke, Stella, "City's souls lost and saved in the flood", The Australian, 14 September 2013.
  10. Sanders, Kate, The Times 27 May 2006.
  11. Duncan, Shirley J. Paolini, "Outlaw odyssey.(Captain Starlight's Apprentice) (Book review)", Antipodes, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 89(2).
  12. White, Judith, The Bulletin, 30 May 2006.
  13. http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/storm-and-grace-review-kathryn-heymans-gripping-novel-of-freediving-and-abuse-20170209-gu9bz5.html Louise Swinn
  14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007765r Captain Starlight's Apprentice
  15. https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/kathryn-heyman-703 University of Newcastle
  16. Web site: 2022-01-19. 2022 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature shortlists announced. 2022-01-26. Books+Publishing. en-AU.
  17. Web site: Literature Board Assessment Meeting Report. Australia Council. 28 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140212010317/http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0015/31920/Literature_September_2006_Assessment_Meeting_Report.pdf. 12 February 2014. dead.
  18. Web site: History of Shortlisted Authors. Kibble Literary Awards. 28 February 2014.
  19. Web site: Literary Cash Boost for Authors. BBC News. 28 February 2014.
  20. Web site: 2003 Shortlist. Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Archive. State Library of Western Australia.
  21. Web site: Record of Wingate Scholars 1988–2011. Wingate Scholarships Anniversary Archive. Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation. 28 February 2014.
  22. Web site: Kathryn Heyman. Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Scheme. Royal Literary Fund. 28 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140308064200/http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=74&menu=4. 8 March 2014. dead.
  23. Web site: Longlist 1998. Women's Prize for Fiction. 28 February 2014.
  24. Web site: Mother & Child Reunion. The Scotsman. 28 February 2014.
  25. Web site: Kathryn Heyman. Royal Literary Fund Fellowship Scheme. Royal Literary Fund. 28 February 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140308064200/http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=74&menu=4. 8 March 2014. dead.

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