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Shirley Hazzard


Australia (1931 - 2016)

Shirley Hazzard was born in Sydney in 1931. She worked in Hong Kong, then New Zealand in the High Commissioner's Office. In 1951 she moved to New York where she worked for the United Nations. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Academy Award and the O. Henry Short Story Award.
 
 
Novels
   The Evening of the Holiday (1966)
   People in Glass Houses (1967)
   The Bay of Noon (1970)
   A Transit of Venus (1980)
   The Great Fire (2003)
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More Than You Know (2000)
Beth Gutcheon
"An exceptional novel - thrilling, taut, austere: this is extraordinary writing of a tense, crystalline beauty."

Awards
2003 National Book Award for Fiction : The Great Fire

Award nominations
2005 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (nominee) : The Great Fire
2004 Women's Prize For Fiction (nominee) : The Great Fire
2004 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Great Fire
1981 PEN/Faulkner Award (nominee) : A Transit of Venus


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