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.
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) Melbourne, Australia |
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
edit- In the Blue House, (Bloomsbury, 2002) ISBN 0-7475-5765-9 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)
Notes
edit- ^ "Meaghan Delahunt". Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval". ABC Radio National, The Book Show. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
- ^ "2002 NSW Premier's Literary Awards". NSW Minister for the Arts. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
- ^ "SCOTTISH LITERARY AWARDS". Saltire Society. Archived from the original on 27 March 2010. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ "Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt". Living. Scotsman.com. Retrieved 16 July 2007.
External links
edit- 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