Simone Lazaroo

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Simone Lazaroo is an Australian author. Born in

Fremantle, Western Australia and teaches Creative Writing at Murdoch University.[when?][citation needed
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Lazaroo's first novel The World Waiting to be Made won the TAG Hungerford award and was published in 1994. She has won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards for fiction for three of her published novels, and has been shortlisted for national and international awards. The World Waiting to be Made was inspired by Lazaroo's own experiences and is about a woman who is searching for belonging in Australia, Singapore, and Malacca. It has been translated into French and Mandarin.[citation needed]

Lazaroo's narrative themes often address issues of racial identity and cultural heritage, belonging and dislocation. Her work has been widely studied by literary scholars, particularly those interested in

Asian Australian writing.[1][2][3][4]

She was an Erasmus Mundus scholar at the University of Oviedo (Spain) in 2014, and a David TK Wong Writing Fellow at the University of East Anglia (UK) in 2000.[5]

In 2000, her first novel World Waiting To Be Made was shortlisted for the

Commonwealth Writers' Prize in 2004.[citation needed
]

Bibliography

  • World Waiting To Be Made (1994)
  • The Australian Fiance (2000)
  • The Travel Writer (2006)
  • Sustenance (2010)
  • Lost River: Four Albums (2014)
  • ‘Between Water and the Night Sky’ (2023)

References

  1. S2CID 145138874
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  2. ^ Morris, Robyn. "Many Degrees of Dark and Light: Sliding the Scale of Whiteness with Simone Lazaroo." In Culture, Identity, Commodity: Diasporic Chinese Literatures in English, edited by T. Khoo and K. Louie, Hong Kong University Press: Hong Kong, 2005. pp 279-298.
  3. JSTOR 41957750
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  4. S2CID 147915922
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  5. ^ "Simone Lazaroo, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing". profiles.murdoch.edu.au. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
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