Paddy O'Reilly explained

Paddy O'Reilly is a multiple award-winning Australian writer. Her first major short story prize was the Age Short Story Award in 2002 for her story, "Snapshots of Strangers".^[1] She was an Asialink resident to Japan in 1997 ^[2] and has also won residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Varuna, The Writers' House, Bundanon Trust, Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre and the Newcastle Lockup,^[3] among others. She has won the Norma K Hemming Award^[4] and been shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal,^[5] the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards^[6] and the Prime Minister's Literary Awards.^[7] Her novels and stories have been published and broadcast in Australia and New Zealand, China, the Caribbean, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States. Heart of Pearl, a short film for which she wrote the screenplay, was nominated for an Australian Film Institute award.

Bibliography

• 2005 (Novel) The Factory, Thompson Walker, Melbourne, republished 2015 by Affirm Press, Melbourne
• 2007 (Story Collection) The End of the World, U.Q.P., St Lucia
• 2007 (Novella) "Deep Water" in Love and Desire, ed. Cate Kennedy, Five Mile Press, Rowville
• 2012 (Novel) The Fine Colour of Rust, Blue Door HarperCollins, London; Atria Simon and Schuster, New York (writing as P. A. O'Reilly)
• 2014 (Novel) The Wonders, Affirm Press, Melbourne; Atria Simon and Schuster, New York
• 2015 (Story Collection) Peripheral Vision, U.Q.P., St Lucia
• 2022 (Novel) Other Houses, Affirm Press, Melbourne

External links

• Austlit page for Paddy O'Reilly
• Paddy O'Reilly official site
• Review of The End of The World
• Review of The Factory
• Review of The Fine Colour of Rust
• Review of The Wonders
• Review of Peripheral Vision
• Review of Other Houses

Notes and References

1. Web site: Writer's winning streak - theage.com.au. www.theage.com.au. 14 December 2002 . 2018-03-20.
2. Web site: Home. 27 February 2018. Asialink.
3. Web site: Artist in Residence .
4. Web site: 2017-10-07 . Previous Award Winners . 2022-03-16 . The Norma K Hemming Award . en.
5. Web site: Archived copy . asaliterature.com . 15 January 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141129053357/http://asaliterature.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2013-ALS-Gold-Medal-Judges-Report-2013.pdf . 29 November 2014 . dead.
6. Web site: 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards - Matilda. www.middlemiss.org. 2018-03-20.
7. Web site: 2023-10-26 . Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2023 shortlists announced . 2023-10-26 . Books+Publishing.