Steven Carroll
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Born | 1949 Prime Minister's Literary Award, Miles Franklin Award |
Steven Carroll (born 1949) is an Australian novelist. He was born in Melbourne, Victoria and studied at
The Sunday Age
newspaper in Melbourne.
Steven Carroll is now a full-time writer living in Melbourne with his partner, the writer
Sydney Morning Herald.[3]
Awards and nominations
- 2002: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, The Art of the Engine Driver[4]
- 2005: Miles Franklin Award, Shortlisted, The Gift of Speed[4]
- 2005: Prix Femina (France), Shortlisted for Best Foreign Novel, The Art of the Engine Driver
- 2008: Miles Franklin Award, Winner, The Time We Have Taken[5]
- 2008: Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region, Winner, The Time We Have Taken[5]
- 2013: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Joint Winner for Fiction, A World of Other People[5]
- 2015: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Shortlisted, Forever Young[5]
- 2016: Prime Minister's Literary Award, Shortlisted for Fiction, Forever Young[5]
- 2018: Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Shortlisted, A New England Affair[5]
Bibliography
Novels
- Remember Me, Jimmy James (1992)
- Momoko (1994)
- The Love Song of Lucy McBride (1998)
- The Lovers' Room (2007) [revised version of Momoko]
- Twilight in Venice (2008) [this is a substantially re-written and abridged version of The Love Song of Lucy McBride], also published as The Last Venetian
- O (2021)
Glenroy series
- The Art of the Engine Driver (2001)
- The Gift of Speed (2004)
- The Time We Have Taken (2007)
- Spirit of Progress (2011)
- Forever Young (2015)
- The Year of the Beast (2019)
The Eliot quartet
- The Lost Life: A Novel (2009)
- A World of Other People (2013)
- A New England Affair (2017)
- Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight (2022)
Critical studies and reviews
- Dooley, Gillian (November 2008). "Review of "The Time We Have Taken"" (PDF). Transnational Literature. 1 (1).
- Allington, Patrick (September 2011). "Everyday profundity". Australian Book Review (334): 25–26. Review of Spirit of Progress.
- Anderson, Don (April 2013). "Dove descending". Australian Book Review. 350: 20. Retrieved 7 August 2015. Review of A world of other people.
Interviews
- Interview with Deborah Bogle in "The Advertiser", 10 March 2007 [1]
- Transcript of interview from the radio program "The Book Show", 20 June 2008 [2]
- Podcast of interview with Louise Swinn, 20 July 2008 [3]
- "Open Page with Steven Carroll". Australian Book Review (334): 68. September 2011.
- Gillian Dooley, "Reinventing Lives: A Conversation with Steven Carroll" in "Writers in Conversation", February 2019 [4]
References
- ^ "A New England Affair". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ "Steven Carroll". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 8 May 2016.
- ^ Haskell, Dennis (21 February 2019). "The Year of the Beast review: Steven Carroll ends his Glenroy novels". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 11 May 2020.
- ^ a b "All People: Steven Carroll". The Wheeler Centre. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
- ^ a b c d e f "Discover Author: Steven Carroll". HarperCollins Publishers Australia. Retrieved 25 January 2020.