Meaghan Delahunt Explained

Meaghan Delahunt
Birth Place:	Melbourne, Australia

Meaghan Delahunt (born 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 at the University of Stirling.

In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia.^[2]

Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House (Bloomsbury, 2001), 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] Her second novel, The Red Book (Granta, 2008), was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2008.^[4]

Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.^[5]

Bibliography

In the Blue House, (Bloomsbury, 2002) review Socialist Worker review Socialist Action
The Red Book (Granta, 2008)
To the Island (Granta, 2011)
Greta Garbo’s Feet & Other Stories (Word Power Women, 2015)
The Night-Side of the Country (UWA Publishing, 2020)

External links

Staff Profile, University of St Andrews
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. Retrieved 16 July 2007

Notes and References

Web site: Meaghan Delahunt . Bloomsbury Publishing Plc . 2007-07-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928044555/http://www.bloomsbury.com/ReadersGroups/ReadersGuides.asp?isbn=9780747557654 . 28 September 2007 .
Web site: Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval . ABC Radio National, The Book Show . 2007-07-16.
Web site: 2002 NSW Premier's Literary Awards . NSW Minister for the Arts . 2007-07-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070207205851/http://www.arts.nsw.gov.au/WhatsNew/Releases/2002%20NSW%20Premier%27s%20Literary%20Awards.doc . 7 February 2007 . dead .
Web site: SCOTTISH LITERARY AWARDS . Saltire Society . 2009-11-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100327074404/http://www.saltiresociety.org.uk/literary.htm . 27 March 2010 . dead .
Web site: Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt . Living. Scotsman.com . 2007-07-16.