Delia Falconer
Delia Falconer (born 1966) is an Australian novelist. She is the author of two novels, The Service of Clouds and The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers (which was republished in Australian paperback as The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers and Selected Stories). Her most recent book is Sydney, a personal history of her hometown in the Australian Cities series.[1] Her books have been shortlisted for major Australian and international prizes across the fields of fiction, nonfiction, innovation, history, and biography. A new work of nonfiction, Signs and Wonders, is forthcoming with Scribner Australia in 2021.[2]
She was described by Australian critic Peter Craven, in The Best Australian Stories 1999, as "the young Australian writer who has arguably done most to put her signature on the literature of this country". Falconer lives with her family in Sydney. She frequently publishes essays, journalism, and reviews in newspapers and journals.[3][4][5][6] Her stories and essays have been widely anthologised, including in "The Macquarie Pen Anthology of Australian Literature".[7]
Falconer is an only child of graphic designer parents. She studied for her undergraduate degree at the University of Sydney. She completed a PhD in English Literature and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne.[8] She is a senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney.[9] In 2018 she won the Walkley-Pascall Award for Arts Criticism for "The Opposite of Glamour", published in the Sydney Review of Books.[10]
Bibliography[]
Fiction[]
- The Service of Clouds, Macmillan, 1997, ISBN 978-0-330-36027-2
- The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers, Picador, 2005, ISBN 978-0-330-42179-9
Nonfiction[]
- Delia, Falconer (16 February 2021), Sydney, (First published in 2010), New South (published 2020), ISBN 9781742237084
- Delia, Falconer (September 2021), Signs and Wonders, Scribner (published 2021), ISBN 9781760857820
As editor[]
- The Penguin Book of the Road, an anthology of stories of the road (Camberwell: Penguin, 2008)
- The Best Australian Stories 2008 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2008).
- The Best Australian Stories 2009 (Melbourne: Black Inc, 2009).
Book reviews[]
References[]
- ^ "Reintroducing the City Series in Paperback! :: NewSouth Publishing".
- ^ Falconer, Delia (29 September 2021). Signs and Wonders. ISBN 9781760857820.
- ^ "The rag trade". September 2015.
- ^ "Roadkill". 6 September 2006.
- ^ "Only the Animals | Ceridwen Dovey | Review |".
- ^ "Fond vignettes in chapter and verse". 25 October 2013.
- ^ "Macquarie PEN Anthology of Australian Literature - General editor Nicholas Jose - 9781741754391 - Allen & Unwin - Australia".
- ^ Falconer, Delia (1995), Vanishing points : mapping the road in postwar American culture, retrieved 6 May 2018
- ^ "Delia Falconer | University of Technology Sydney". University of Technology Sydney. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
- ^ "Dr Delia Falconer wins 2018 Walkley-Pascall Award". University of Technology Sydney. 19 July 2018. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
External links[]
- Delia Falconer on Twitter
- Author website https://deliafalconer.com.au/ [1]
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