Meaghan Delahunt

Meaghan Delahunt
Born 1961
Melbourne, Australia
Residence East Coast of Scotland

Meaghan Delahunt (born 1961) is a novelist. She was born in Melbourne, Australia and now lives on the East Coast of Scotland.[1] In 2004 she was Writer in Residence in the Management School at St Andrews University, and she now lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Stirling.

In 1997 she won the Flamingo/HQ national short story prize in Australia.[2]

Delahunt's first novel, In the Blue House (Bloomsbury, 2001), won a regional Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book in 2002, the Saltire Award for First Novel, a Scottish Arts Council Book of the year award, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and shortlisted for Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[3] Her second novel, The Red Book (Granta, 2008), was shortlisted for the Saltire Book of the Year award for 2008.[4]

Delahunt was awarded a UNESCO Aschberg literature residency and Scottish Arts Council bursary in 2000 and an Asialink literature residency in 2002.[5]

Bibliography

Notes

  1. "Meaghan Delahunt". Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  2. "Commonwealth Games Scottish literary event by Ramona Koval". ABC Radio National, The Book Show. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  3. "2002 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards". NSW Minister for the Arts. Archived from the original on 7 February 2007. Retrieved 2007-07-16.
  4. "SCOTTISH LITERARY AWARDS". Saltire Society. Retrieved 2009-11-15.
  5. "Sexual Politics by Meaghan Delahunt". Living. Scotsman.com. Retrieved 2007-07-16.

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