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Beverley Farmer

ベヴァリー・ファーマー

Beverley Fāmā

Aliases: B. Christou

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1941-02-07 (Windsor, Victoria)
Died
2018-04-16 age 77
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Residence History
Melbourne → Greece

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Short story writer, Teacher, Restaurant owner
Active Years
1968-2017
Influenced By
Marjorie Barnard
Nominations
Miles Franklin Award shortlisted (1996, The House in the Light), Stella Prize longlisted (2018, This Water)

Education

Mac.Robertson Girls' High School
Country: Australia
University of Melbourne
Degree: BA
Year of Graduation: 1960
Country: Australia

Awards

New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
1984
Work: Milk
Category: Fiction
Organization: Government of New South Wales
Result: 受賞
Patrick White Award
2009
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Milk

1983 Short story collection

Short story collection featuring themes of loss.

LossExperience of being foreign

Snake

1982 Short story anthology

Home Time

1985 Short story anthology

Explores relation between life and fiction.

Life and fiction

Alone

1980 Novella

Autobiographical novella about breakup of a lesbian relationship.

LossLesbian relationship

The House in the Light

1995 Novella

Bibliography

  • Snake (1982)
  • Milk (1983)
  • Home Time (1985)
  • Collected Stories (1987)
  • Alone (1980)
  • The Seal Woman (1992)
  • The House in the Light (1995)
  • A Body of Water: A Year's Notebook (1990)
  • The Bone House (2005)
  • This Water: Five Tales (2017)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Sensitive portrayal of lossInterplay of life and fiction
Recurring Motifs
LossExperience of being foreign

Legacy

Australian novelist and short story writer known for works exploring themes of loss.

Trivia

  • Married a Greek migrant and lived in Greece for three years.
  • Son born in Australia in 1972.