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Australian novelist (born 1961) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mary-Rose MacColl (born 1961) is an Australian novelist.[1]
Mary-Rose MacColl | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
Occupation | Novelist |
Nationality | Australian |
Alma mater | Queensland University of Technology |
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MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was shortlisted for the 1995 Australian/Vogel Literary Award.[2] In the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards, she won The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for her novel Swimming Home. She was nominated again in the 2017 Queensland Literary Awards in The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award for For a Girl.[3]
MacColl is a graduate in journalism from the Queensland University of Technology.[4] She has contributed two essays to the Griffith Review. Firstly, "The Birth Wars"[5] for the issue, MoneySexPower, and more recently, "The Water of Life" for The Novella Project/Annual Fiction Edition.[6]
At the 2022 Queensland Literary Awards, MacColl was awarded a Queensland Writers Fellowship valued at $15,000.[7]
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