Carmel Bird
Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Carmel Bird is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and essays. She has also written books on the art of writing, and has edited anthologies of essays and stories.
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Life
Carmel Bird was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1940, and educated there.[1] She started teaching in 1961, and taught for twenty years.[2] She now lives in Central Victoria.
Bird has taught fiction writing at the Universities of Melbourne, Deakin, Latrobe, Monash, Swinburne and RMIT.[3]
Writing career
Her first collection of short stories, called Births, Deaths and Marriages, was published in 1983, and her most recent novel (2010) is Child of the Twilight, a novel concerned with medical science and faith. Her most recent collection of short fiction is My Hearts Are Your Hearts (2015), and her most recent non-fiction is Fair Game (2015).
Awards and nominations
- 1991 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for The Bluebird Cafe
- 1991 — shortlisted in Victorian Premier's Award for The Bluebird Cafe
- 1996 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for The White Garden
- 1996 — shortlisted in the NSW Premier's Award; the Aurealis Award; the Ned Kelly Award for The White Garden
- 1998 — shortlisted in the Miles Franklin Award for Red Shoes
- 2001 — winner of the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal at the Mildura Writer's Festival[4]
Bibliography
Novels
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- Bird Carmel (2010) Child of the Twilight
Collections
- Bird Carmel (1981) Dimitra
- Bird Carmel (1983) Births,Deaths and Marriages
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- Bird Carmel (1988) Woodpecker Point
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- Bird Carmel (2005) The Essential Bird
- Bird Carmel (2015) My Hearts Are Your Hearts
Anthologies (Edited)
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Non-fiction
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- Bird Carmel (2010) Writing the Story of Your Life
- Bird Carmel (2013) Dear Writer Revisited
- Bird Carmel (2015) Fair Game
Children's
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Book reviews
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References and notes
External links
- CarmelBird.com — official website of Carmel Bird
