Fiona McGregor
Fiona Kelly McGregor | |
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| Born | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Occupation | Writer and performance artist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Years active | 1992– |
| Notable works | Indelible Ink (2010) |
| Notable awards | Age Book of the Year, Steele Rudd Award, Woollahra Digital Award (non-fiction). |
Fiona Kelly McGregor is an Australian writer,
Early life and education
McGregor was born in Sydney, New South Wales.[1]
Career
McGregor has written for a variety of publications including
As a performance artist McGregor toured with You Have the Body, a meditation on unlawful detention, in 2008–09,[3] and she screened her 4-hour video Vertigo at the MOP gallery in Sydney in February 2011.[4] In November 2011, she presented a solo show at Artspace, Sydney, entitled Water Series. Her fourth book, Strange Museums, is a travel memoir about a performance art tour McGregor undertook through Poland in 2006.
Awards and nominations
- 1992 winner — John Morrison VFAW short story prize — "Dirt"[5]
- 1992 shortlisted The Australian/Vogel Literary Award (for an unpublished manuscript) — Au Pair[5]
- 1995 winner Steele Rudd Award — Suck My Toes[5]
- 1997 named one of the Best Young Australian Novelists by The Sydney Morning Herald[2]
- 2003 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction — Chemical Palace[5]
- 2010 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction — Indelible Ink[5]
- 2011 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction — Indelible Ink[5]
- 2011 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award — Indelible Ink[5]
- 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize — Indelible Ink[5]
- 2011 winner The Age Book of the Year Award — Book of the Year — Indelible Ink[1]
- 2019 winner Woollahra Digital Literary Award — non-fiction — The Hot Desk[5]
- 2022 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Prize for Nonfiction — Buried Not Dead[6]
- 2022 shortlisted Woollahra Digital Literary Award — non-fiction — Acts of Avoidance[5]
- 2023 longlisted Stella Prize — novel — Iris[5]
- 2023 shortlisted NSW Premier's Awards — Christine Stead Award for fiction — Iris[5]
- 2023 shortlisted ALS Gold Medal — Iris[7]
- 2023 shortlisted Miles Franklin Award — Iris[8]
Selected works
Novels
- Au Pair (1993)
- Chemical Palace (2002)
- Indelible Ink (2010)
- Iris (2022)
Short story collection
- Suck My Toes (1994)
Non-fiction
- Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland (2008) (travel memoir, performance art critique)
- A Novel Idea (2019) (photoessay)
- Buried Not Dead (2021) (essay collection)
References
- ^ a b Steger, Jason (26 August 2011). "Winning words". The Age. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ Sydney Morning Herald. 2 June 2007. Archived from the originalon 5 January 2019.
- ^ Waites, James. "You Have the Body: You Win the Prize". Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 6 October 2015.
- ^ Mudie, Ella. "Vertigo: Beautiful fear". RealTime Arts. Retrieved 20 September 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Fiona McGregor". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 22 July 2022.
- ^ "VPLAs 2022 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 7 December 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2023 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 30 May 2023. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 June 2023.
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