Carrie Tiffany
Carrie Tiffany (born 1965) is an English-born Australian novelist and former park ranger.
Biography
Tiffany was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire and migrated to Australia with her family in the early 1970s. She grew up in Perth, Western Australia. In her early twenties she worked as a park ranger in Central Australia.
She moved to Melbourne in 1988 where she began work as a writer, focusing mainly on agriculture. Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a creative writing course. She completed a master's degree in Creative Writing at RMIT University and is working towards her doctorate at Latrobe University.[1]
Tiffany's debut novel, Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living, was a remarkable success on its release in 2005, winning several awards and shortlisted for some major awards, including the Miles Franklin Award and the Orange Prize.
Her second novel, Mateship with Birds, was published in 2012.
Awards and nominations
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living
- 2003 won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript
- 2005 won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Fiction
- 2006 shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award[2]
- 2006 shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award
- 2007 winner of the Dobbie Encouragement Award
- 2006 shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction[3]
- 2007 shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction[4]
- Mateship with Birds
- 2012 shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award
- 2012 shortlisted for the Melbourne Prize for Literature Best Writing Award
- 2013 won the inaugural Stella Prize
- 2013 shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award
- 2013 won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards
- 2013 shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction
Bibliography
- Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2005) ISBN 0-330-42191-3
- Mateship with Birds (Pan Macmillan Australia, 2012) ISBN 9781742610764
Notes
- ↑ "Carrie Tiffany, Author/Agriculturalist Journalist". Booked Out Agency. Archived from the original on 1 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ↑ "First and foremost: Guardian First Book Award 2006". Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ↑ "The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006". State Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ↑ "Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 01 August 2007". Orange Prize. Archived from the original on 4 August 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
References
- Guardian First Book Award 2006 Guardian News and Media Limited (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
- Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 1 August 2007 (retrieved 1 August 2007)
- Carrie Tiffany, Author/Agriculturalist Journalist Booked Out Agency (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
- The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006 State Library of Victoria (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
External links
- Interview with Tiffany
- Rules for Scientific Living reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar Orange Prize (Retrieved 1 August 2007)