Carrie Tiffany 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 Victoria to work as a forest ranger in the Central Highlands and later began working as a writer, focusing mainly on sustainable agriculture and the environment.[1] Tiffany became the editor of Victorian Landcare Magazine in 1996. Tiffany took up writing fiction and completed a master's degree in Creative Writing at RMIT University and a doctorate at Deakin University.[2] Tiffany mentors writers through the Australian Writer Mentors program[3] and has taught writing at many institutions including RMIT University, University of Melbourne, Writers Victoria and the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity. She teaches the online writing a novel program at Faber Writing Academy.[4]
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 and won the inaugural Stella Prize. Her third novel, Exploded View, was published in 2019 to critical acclaim.[5][6] Her Mildura community sound art project regenerating John Shaw Neilson’s 1905 poem, ‘The Loving Tree’ featured on ABC Radio National in 2017.[7]
Tiffany was a member of the 2008 bid committee that secured Melbourne as UNESCO’s second City of Literature.[8] In 2023 she served as a Digital Lending Rights Ambassador during the Australian Society of Authors successful campaign to have the Federal Government recognise the income Australian authors lose through loans and other free uses of their e-books in public lending libraries.[9]
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- 2003 won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript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[10]
- 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[11]
- 2007Exploded View shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction[12]
- 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
- Exploded View
- 2019 won the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award[13]
- 2020 shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award[14]
- 2020 shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal[15]
- 2020 shortlisted for Voss Literary Prize[16]
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
- Exploded View (Text Publishing, 2019) ISBN 9781925773415
Notes
- ^ "Tiffany's natural order". The Age. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "On The Nature Strip - an exegesis". Deakin University. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Australian Writers Mentor Program". Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Faber Writing Academy". Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Exploded View review: Carrie Tiffany's powerful and poetic novel of violation". The Sydney Morning Herald. 12 April 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "'Exploded View' by Carrie Tiffany". The Monthly. March 2019. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
- ^ "The Loving Tree". ABC Radio National. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Melbourne Hooks the Books". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 8 August 2023.
- ^ "Monday musings on Australian Literature Digital Lending Rights". Whispering Gums.
- ^ "First and foremost: Guardian First Book Award 2006". Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
- ^ "The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction: Shortlist 2006". State Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 9 September 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
- ^ "Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction, Shortlist 2007, Wednesday 01 August 2007". Orange Prize. Archived from the original on 4 August 2007. Retrieved 1 August 2007.
- ^ Qian, Jinghua (12 November 2019). "Winners announced for the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards". ArtsHub Australia. Archived from the original on 12 November 2019. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ "Miles Franklin Literary Award 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 17 June 2020. Archived from the original on 19 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
- ^ "ALS Gold Medal 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2020. Archived from the original on 16 June 2020. Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ "Voss Literary Prize 2020 shortlist announced". Books+Publishing. 19 November 2020. Archived from the original on 18 November 2020. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
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
- Carrie Tiffany: Her new novel pictures a traumatic childhood
- Rules for Scientific Living reviewed by Ziauddin Sardar Orange Prize (Retrieved 1 August 2007)
- Carrie Tiffany on The Garret Podcast
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