Tegan Bennett Daylight Explained

Tegan Bennett Daylight
Birth Name:	Tegan Bennett
Birth Place:	Sydney, New South Wales
Website:	Official website
Spouse:	Russell Daylight
Occupation:	Author, teacher, critic
Children:	Alice and Patrick Daylight

Tegan Bennett Daylight (born 1969, in Sydney) is an Australian writer of novels and short stories. She is best known as a fiction writer, teacher and critic, publishing both books of non-fiction and numerous short stories. She has also written several books for children and teenagers. She is the author of Bombora (1996), What Falls Away (2001) and Safety (2006).

Bombora was short-listed for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award and the Kathleen Mitchell Award. In 2002, she was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s “Best Young Australian Novelists”.^[1]

Bennett Daylight's story collection Six Bedrooms, was published by Vintage in 2015 and was shortlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize.^[2]

Daylight also works as a Creative Writing lecturer at Western Sydney University.

Having moved from Sydney, she now lives in Katoomba in the Blue Mountains with her husband Russell Daylight and their two children Alice and Patrick.

Publications

Novels

• Bombora (1996) published by Allen & Unwin^[3]
• What Falls Away (2001) published by Allen & Unwin^[4]
• Safety (2006) published by Vintage^{[5] [6]}

Short stories

• Six Bedrooms (2015) published by Vintage Australia, an imprint of Penguin^[7]

Essays

• The Details (2020) published by Simon & Schuster Australia^[8]

Awards and honours

• The Stella Interview - The Stella Price (2016)
• The Stella Prize Shortlist (2016)^[9]
• The Saturday Papers Books of the Year (2015)^[10]

External links

• Official website
• Safety - Tegan Bennett Daylight, randomhouse.com. Accessed 30 March 2024.
• Sydney Morning Herald review of Safety smh.com.au. Accessed 30 March 2024.
• Bulletin Book Reviews review of Safety

Notes and References

1. News: Happy endings for the adventurous . 8 October 2020 . Sydney Morning Herald . Culture: Books . Sydney Morning Herald . 18 May 2002.
2. Web site: The Shortlist 2016 Stella Prize . The Stella Prize . 8 October 2020.
3. Web site: Bombora Tegan Bennett . National Library of Australia Catalogue . 1996 . National Library of Australia . 9781864480108 . 8 October 2020.
4. Web site: What falls away / Tegan Bennett . National Library of Australia Catalogue . 4 September 2023 . National Library of Australia . 9781865084701 . 8 October 2020.
5. Web site: Safety / Tegan Bennett Daylight . National Library of Australia Catalogue . 2006 . National Library of Australia . 9781740513906 . 8 October 2020.
6. Web site: Safety: Tegan Bennett Daylight . Penguin Books Australia . 8 October 2020.
7. Web site: Six Bedrooms: Tegan Bennett Daylight . Penguin . Penguin Books Australia . 8 October 2020.
8. Book: The Details: On Love, Death and Reading By Tegan Bennett Daylight . 8 July 2020 . Simon & Schuster . 9781760855253 . 8 October 2020.
9. Web site: The Shortlist 2016 Stella Prize . The Stella Prize . 8 October 2020.
10. News: Books 2015 #1 . 8 October 2020 . The Saturday Paper . 91 . Schwartz Publishing . 19 December 2015.