Marcella Polain

Driving Into the Sun

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fremantle Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 137mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781925591996
• ISBN-10: 1925591999
• Artikelnr.: 54473174

Autorenporträt

Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and immigrated to Australia at the age of two, with her Irish father and Armenian mother. She writes poetry, narrative fiction and lyric essays; her work has been published nationally and internationally, and in translation. Her first novel, The Edge of the World (2007, Fremantle Press), was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Marcella's short fiction has twice won the Patricia Hackett Prize. She has published three collections of poetry: Dumbstruck (1996, Five Islands Press) won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize; Each Clear Night (2000, Five Islands Press) was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Poetry; and Therapy Like Fish: New and Selected Poems (2008, John Leonard Press) was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Prize. In 2015, she was awarded the Gold Medal by the Writers' Union of Armenia, and the International Grand Prize for Poetry in Curtea des Arges, Romania. She is Senior Lecturer in the Writing program at Edith Cowan University in Perth.