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Steven Carroll

スティーブン・キャロル

Sutībun Kyaroru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1949 (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
Nationality
Australian
Languages
English
Residence History
Melbourne

Career

Occupations
novelist, teacher, drama critic
Active Years
1984-
Affiliations
RMIT, The Sunday Age, Sydney Morning Herald
Nominations
2002 Miles Franklin Award shortlist, The Art of the Engine Driver, 2005 Miles Franklin Award shortlist, The Gift of Speed, 2005 Prix Femina shortlist for Best Foreign Novel, The Art of the Engine Driver, 2015 Victorian Premier's Literary Award shortlist, Forever Young, 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award shortlist for Fiction, Forever Young, 2018 Victorian Premier's Literary Award shortlist, A New England Affair, 2025 International Dublin Literary Award longlist, Death of a Foreign Gentleman

Education

La Trobe University
Country: Australia

Awards

Miles Franklin Award
2008
Work: The Time We Have Taken
Category: 小説
Result: Winner
Commonwealth Writers' Prize (SE Asia and Pacific Region)
2008
Work: The Time We Have Taken
Result: Winner
Prime Minister's Literary Award
2013
Work: A World of Other People
Category: フィクション
Result: Joint Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Art of the Engine Driver

2001 novel

Inspired by a dream taking him back to his childhood in Glenroy in the fifties.

suburban lifefamilymemory

The Time We Have Taken

2007 novel

Third in the Glenroy series. Winner of Miles Franklin Award.

timechangesuburbia

A World of Other People

2013 novel

Second in the Eliot quartet. Joint winner of Prime Minister's Literary Award.

other peopleliteratureT.S. Eliot

Bibliography

  • Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992)
  • Momoko (1994)
  • The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
  • The Art of the Engine Driver (2001)
  • The Gift of Speed (2004)
  • The Time We Have Taken (2007)
  • The Lovers' Room (2007) [revised Momoko]
  • Twilight in Venice (2008) [also The Last Venetian]
  • The Lost Life: A Novel (2009)
  • Spirit of Progress (2011)
  • A World of Other People (2013)
  • Forever Young (2015)
  • A New England Affair (2017)
  • The Year of the Beast (2019)
  • Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight (2022)
  • O (2021)
  • Death Of A Foreign Gentleman (2024)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
everyday profundity
Recurring Motifs
suburban lifetime and memoryT.S. Eliot influences

Legacy

Prominent Australian novelist, winner of Miles Franklin Award and others. Known for Glenroy series and Eliot quartet.