Fiona McGregor
| Fiona McGregor | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1965 Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | writer and performance artist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Notable works | Indelible Ink |
Fiona McGregor is an Australian writer and performance artist who was born in Sydney, New South Wales in 1965. Her third novel, Indelible Ink, won the 2011 The Age Book of the Year award.[1]
McGregor has written for a variety of publications including Sydney Morning Herald, Heat, Meanjin, TLS, The Age, The Monthly, The Saturday Paper and Real Time. Following the publication of her first novel in 1993 she was named one of the inaugural Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists in 1997.[2]
As a performance artist McGregor has toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008-09,[3] and she screened her 4-hour 5-minute video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011.[4]
Bibliography
Novels
- Au Pair (1993)
- Chemical Palace (2002)
- Indelible Ink (2010)
Short story collection
- Suck My Toes (1994)
Non-fiction
- Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008)
Awards and nominations
- 1992 shortlisted The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) — Au Pair
- 1995 winner Steele Rudd Award — Suck My Toes
- 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction — Chemical Palace
- 2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction — Indelible Ink
- 2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction — Indelible Ink
- 2011 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award — Indelible Ink
- 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize — Indelible Ink
- 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year — Indelible Ink
References
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