Rebecca Giggs
Rebecca Giggs is a Perth-based Australian nonfiction writer, known for Fathoms: The World in the Whale.
Career[]
Giggs studied at the University of Western Australia. She holds an LLB, BA Arts (Hons). and a PhD in ecological literary studies conferred in 2014.
Giggs is an honorary fellow at the Macquarie University in Sydney.[1] She was awarded the 2017 Mick Dark flagship fellowship by Varuna for "The Whale in the Room", the working title for Fathoms.[2] She won support from Writers Victoria through the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund to visit the Rachel Carson Centre for Environment and Society in Munich, Germany as a writing fellow in 2018.[3]
As an essayist, Giggs has contributed to The Atlantic on science subjects from "Why We're Afraid of Bats" to "Human Drugs Are Polluting the Water—And Animals Are Swimming in It".[4]
Her first book, Fathoms: The World in the Whale, was published in 2020 worldwide by Scribe[5] and by Simon & Schuster in the USA.[6]
Awards and recognition[]
Kirkus Reviews named Fathoms in their "10 Top Summer Reads in Nonfiction"[7] and described the book as "a thoughtful, ambitiously crafted appeal for the preservation of marine mammals".[8] In November 2020 Giggs won the Nib Literary Award[9] and in February 2021 she won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Nonfiction for Fathoms.[10] Her book was also shortlisted for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction[11] and the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award.[12] Fathoms was shortlisted for the Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer at the 2020 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards[13] and for the 2021 Stella Prize.[14] In 2021 Fathoms was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, alongside David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet and others, in the Global Conservation Writing category.[15]
References[]
- ^ "Rebecca Giggs". Macquarie University. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Varuna announces recipients of 2017 Residency Fellowships". Books+Publishing. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Writers Victoria announces Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund round-two recipients". Books+Publishing. 11 April 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Giggs, Rebecca. "Rebecca Giggs". The Atlantic. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ Giggs, Rebecca (2020). Fathoms: The world in the whale. Brunswick, Victoria: Scribe Publications. ISBN 978-1-925321-38-8. OCLC 1153440206.
- ^ Giggs, Rebecca (2020). Fathoms: The world in the whale (First ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 1-9821-2069-X. OCLC 1124313331.
- ^ Liebetrau, Eric (6 July 2020). "10 Top Summer Reads in Nonfiction". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Fathoms: The World in the Whale". Kirkus Reviews. 15 May 2020. Retrieved 12 February 2021.
- ^ "'Fathoms' wins Nib Literary Award". Books+Publishing. 12 November 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Giggs wins ALA Andrew Carnegie Medal". Books+Publishing. 9 February 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "The 2020 Kirkus Prize". www.bookreporter.com. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Announcing the 2021 PEN America Literary Awards Finalists". PEN America. 10 February 2021. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "WA Premier's Book Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 18 June 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ "Stella Prize 2021 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Sethi, Winn and Rebanks shortlisted for Wainwright Prize". The Bookseller. 21 August 2021. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
External links[]
- Rebecca Giggs, Whale Writer – Kirkus Reviews profile by Eric Liebetrau
- What Lies Beneath – review of Robert Macfarlane's Underland
- Official website
- Rebecca Giggs on Twitter
- Living people
- 21st-century Australian women writers
- 21st-century Australian writers
- University of Western Australia alumni
- Macquarie University faculty
- Australian essayists
- Science communicators
- Australian nature writers