Miles Franklin Literary Award
1 appearances
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Edition 58 (2017) Winner
Josephine Wilson
じょせふぃん・うぃるそん
Joserfin Wiruson
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- Lincolnshire, England
- Nationality
- Australian
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Lincolnshire, England → Perth, Western Australia
Career
- Occupations
- writer, electronic literature writer, playwright, academic
- Active Years
- 1994-2024
- Affiliations
- Murdoch University, University of Western Australia, Curtin University
- Nominations
- Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction shortlist
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Queensland | — | Creative Arts | Master of Philosophy | — | Australia |
| University of Western Australia | — | English and Cultural Studies | PhD | — | Australia |
University of Queensland
Creative Arts
Degree:
Master of Philosophy
Country:
Australia
University of Western Australia
English and Cultural Studies
Degree:
PhD
Country:
Australia
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Dorothy Hewett Award | Extinctions | — | UWA Publishing | winner |
| 2017 | Miles Franklin Award | Extinctions | — | — | winner |
| 2017 | Colin Roderick Award | Extinctions | — | — | winner |
Dorothy Hewett Award
2016
Work:
Extinctions
Organization:
UWA Publishing
Result:
winner
Miles Franklin Award
2017
Work:
Extinctions
Result:
winner
Colin Roderick Award
2017
Work:
Extinctions
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Extinctions
2016 novelSet in 2006, features Fred, a retired engineer and his neighbor Jan. Called a 'Bildungsroman for seniors.'
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Cusp
2005 novelBibliography
- The Geography of Haunted Places (1994)
- Customs (1998)
- Cusp (2005)
- Extinctions (2016)
- *water always writes in *plural (1998)
- Cipher
- Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- interdisciplinary approachcreative narrativeselectronic literature
- Recurring Motifs
- loneliness in later lifeaged careextinctionAnthropocene
Legacy
Australian writer and academic renowned for winning the Miles Franklin Award with Extinctions, focusing on themes of aging, loneliness, extinction, and interdisciplinary research.
Trivia
- Moved to Australia from England at the age of six.